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TWiEVO 34: You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s PON

  • August 16, 2018
  • Tagged as: agricultural runoff, cetacean, evolution, gene loss, marine mammal, natural selection, organophosphorus, paraoxonase, pesticide, pinniped, sirenian

Nels and Vincent discuss how the loss of an enzyme in marine mammals millions of years ago now makes them at risk for neurotoxicity caused by human-made organophosphorous pesticides.

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