From New Orleans, La., at the E.Hormone 2002 meeting
DADDY-MOMMY. This mangrove killifish makes both sperm and eggs. W.P. Davis/EPA
The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites (SN: 11/02/02, p. 275: More Frog Trouble: Herbicides may emasculate wild males). But what happens when a naturally hermaphroditic species, such as the mangrove killifish, encounters this weed killer?
The hermaphrodites can change into females, new data show.
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