Cryptic confounding compounds: A brief consideration of the influences of anthropogenic contaminants on courtship and mating behavior.
Cryptic confounding compounds: A brief consideration of the influences of anthropogenic contaminants on courtship and mating behavior.
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隐秘的混杂化合物：简要考虑人为污染物对求偶和交配行为的影响。
DOI：
10.1007/s10211-012-0137-x
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Ophir,AlexanderG
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作者：
Blocker,TomicaD;Ophir,AlexanderG
污染物，如农药，多氯联苯（PCB），二恶英和金属，是持久性和普遍存在的，并已知威胁环境。传统上，科学家们一直在考虑这些污染物造成的直接生理风险。然而，科学家们刚刚开始整合行为学和毒理学来研究污染物对行为的影响。这篇评论认为，潜在的污染物对交配行为的影响。在这里，我们评估了越来越多的关于性分化、求偶、性接受、性唤起和交配中断的研究。我们讨论了这些破坏对保护工作的影响，并强调了认识到环境压力影响行为实验的潜力的重要性。更具体地说，我们认为人为污染物的负面影响，影响动物的直接行为和潜在的级联和/或长期影响的行为生态学和种群的进化。总的来说，我们的目标是提高对污染物可能产生的混杂影响的认识，并在解释可能产生潜在影响的结果时提高警惕。
Contaminants, like pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and metals, are persistent and ubiquitous and are known to threaten the environment. Traditionally, scientists have considered the direct physiological risks that these contaminants pose. However, scientists have just begun to integrate ethology and toxicology to investigate the effects that contaminants have on behavior. This review considers the potential for contaminant effects on mating behavior. Here, we assess the growing body of research concerning disruptions in sexual differentiation, courtship, sexual receptivity, arousal, and mating. We discuss the implications of these disruptions on conservation efforts and highlight the importance of recognizing the potential for environmental stressors to affect behavioral experimentation. More specifically, we consider the negative implications for anthropogenic contaminants to affect the immediate behavior of animals and their potential to have cascading and/or long-term effects on the behavioral ecology and evolution of populations. Overall, we aim to raise awareness of the confounding influence that contaminants can have and promote caution when interpreting results where the potential for cryptic effects are possible.