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University of Nevada, Reno first to show transgenerational effect of antibiotics; Greatly reduced sperm viability caused by tetracycline passes from father to son in pseudoscorpions » Zeh IMG_3557

Jeanne Zeh, lead author of a paper published in Nature’s open access journal Scientific Reports today, examines a pseudoscorpion using a microscope operated by graduate student, and one of the co-authors, Melvin Bonilla. Zeh is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology in the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Science. The paper is the first to report the transgenerational effects of tetracycline. Photo by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno.

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