DDT and Pelicans

Mandibular Bowing and Mineralization in Brown Pelicans

Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) plunge dive into water to capture fish with highly distensible pouches. During prey capture, the pouch may expand to hold 11 L of water and the mandibular rami may bow from a resting position of 5 cm to over 15 cm. We compared mineralization of two bending regions of the mandible with a nonbending region, and examined cross-sectional morphology to determi...

Lz Where Pelicans Kiss Seals

he story of how children learn to seems at f i rs t be a simple one: At a very early age they begin by scribbling with any available marker on any available surface. At first the children’s drawings are simple, clumsy and unrealistic; gradually they become more technically skilled and realistic. But the development of drawing is not quite so simple and straightforward. In fact, the story turns ...

DDT and Malaria Prevention

DDT Paradox

Hwang B-F, Lee YL, Jaakkola JJ. 2011. Air pollution and stillbirth: a population-based case–control study in Taiwan. Environ Health Perspect 119:1345–1349; http://dx.doi. org/10.1289/ehp.1003056 [Online 29 March 2011]. Strand L, Barnett A, Tong S. 2011. Methodological challenges when estimating the effects of season and seasonal exposures on birth outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology 11 (...

DDT/DDE and infant exposure.

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