Maternal or Paternal Antibiotics? Intergenerational Transmission and Reproductive Toxicity in Zebrafish
Bentuo Xu,
Mengjie Pu,
Kaile Jiang
et al.
Abstract:Despite the known direct toxicity of various antibiotics to aquatic organisms, the potential chronic impact through intergenerational transmission on reproduction remains elusive. Here, we exposed zebrafish to a mixture of 15 commonly consumed antibiotics at environmentally relevant concentrations (1 and 100 μg L −1 ) with a cross-mating design. A high accumulation of antibiotics was detected in the ovary (up to 904.58 ng g −1 ) and testis (up to 1704.49 ng g −1 ) of F0 fish. The transmission of antibiotics fr… Show more
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