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Transgenerational effects on development following microplastic exposure in Drosophila melanogaster

PeerJ 2021 41 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Eva Jiménez-Guri, Katherine Roberts, Francisca C. García, Maximiliano Tourmente, Ben Longdon, Brendan J. Godley

Summary

Researchers fed Drosophila melanogaster flies plastic-supplemented food and found that while treated flies showed changes in fertility and sex ratio, their unexposed offspring had shorter larval development and reduced adult size, demonstrating transgenerational developmental effects from parental microplastic exposure.

Polymers
PVC
Body Systems
Reproductive

Flies treated with plastics in the food media showed changes in fertility and sex ratio, but showed no differences in developmental times, adult size or the capacity to fight infections in comparison with controls. However, the offspring of treated flies reared in non-supplemented food had shorter life cycles, and those coming from both polyvinyl chloride treatments were smaller than those offspring of controls.

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