Painted Turtles (IMAGE)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Painted Turtles

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Painted turtle eggs were brought from a hatchery in Louisiana, candled to ensure embryo viability and then incubated at male-permissive temperatures in a bed of vermiculite. Those exposed to BPA developed deformities to testes that held female characteristics.

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Roger Meissen, MU Bond Life Sciences Center

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