title: Environmental influences on fertility: can we learn lessons from studies of wildlife?
abstract: Wildlife are good models for understanding the impacts of environmental contamination on fertility because [1] exposure doses are representative of actual contaminant mixtures and concentrations in the environment, [2] wildlife populations are more genetically diverse than laboratory animal populations, and [3] both individual and population level effects of fertility compromise can be observed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8525. ljg@zoo.ulf.edu
authors.forename: Louis J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Guillette
authors.forename: Thea M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity*; D005298:Fertility / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants