Chemosensory Observation Report

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The first poster that stood out the most for me was the “acute atrazine exposure has lasting effects on chemosensory responses to food odors in crayfish”. When I talked to Tyler J. Peters he said the objective was “To examine how atrazine exposure affects chemosensory abilities and to determine if crayfish can recover these abilities post-atrazine exposure. Some of the methods were male and female crayfish were isolated and exposed to 80ppb atrazine for 96 hours, and control individuals were exposed to water only. Also the crayfish was able to test the area for 10 min and allowed to explore arena for 15 minutes after. In conclusions atrazine-treated crayfish were not attracted to the food odor, did not consume as much as control crayfish and

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