toxicant

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Yet, data remain sparse on how specific elements are distributed within an animal's body, especially for many rarely encountered species, and how toxicant levels relate to its sex, breed, age and other demographic factors.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

Skinner and his colleagues also conducted epigenetic analysis of each generation of the animals, finding that the toxicant exposures shifted their entire epigenetics dramatically.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

Sugar bait with a toxicant, such as boric acid, typically works well, as many of the ant species that enter homes are sweet-loving ants.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023

“They may not have been a toxicant at low levels,” Rue says, but “we could be crossing a threshold.”

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2021

The birds were the unintended victims of a field experiment to test a toxicant — one intended for feral pigs, but no other animals — that had been developed in Australia.

From Salon • May 23, 2021