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Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Global Ecosystem

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Polychlorinated biphenyls are widely dispersed in the global ecosystem, and are powerful inducers of hepatic enzymes which degrade oestradiol. Together with other chlorinated biocides, such as DDT, they could account for a large part of the aberration in calcium metabolism which has been observed in many species of birds since the Second World War.

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  1. Institute of Marine Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 94720

    R. W. RISEBROUGH & P. RIECHE

  2. Division of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14750

    D. B. PEAKALL

  3. Department of Zoology, University of California, Davis, 95616

    S. G. HERMAN

  4. San Diego Natural History Museum, PO Box 1390, San Diego, California, 92112

    M. N. KIRVEN

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RISEBROUGH, R., RIECHE, P., PEAKALL, D. et al. Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Global Ecosystem. Nature 220, 1098–1102 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201098a0

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