{"id":221090,"date":"2025-08-28T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/maternal-exposure-to-crude-oil-and-flame-retardants-can-affect-later-generations"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:23:21","slug":"maternal-exposure-to-crude-oil-and-flame-retardants-can-affect-later-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/maternal-exposure-to-crude-oil-and-flame-retardants-can-affect-later-generations","title":{"rendered":"Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maternal-exposure-to-crude-oil-and-flame-retardants-can-affect-later-generations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac health and other internal functions in offspring and subsequent generations.<\/p>\n<p>The research on multiple generations of Atlantic killifish (mummichogs) was published across three papers in the journal <i>Environmental Science &amp; Technology.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The work, some dating back to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the Gulf coast, offers insight into how toxic exposures\u2014even short ones\u2014can unfold over time in many species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac health and other internal functions in offspring and subsequent generations. The research on multiple generations of Atlantic killifish (mummichogs) was published across three papers in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}