The Herbicide Glyphosate and Its Formulations Impact Animal Behavior across Taxa
Use of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides is ubiquitous in US agriculture and widespread around the world. Despite marketing efforts to the contrary, numerous studies demonstrate glyphosate toxicity to non-target organisms including animals, primarily focusing on mortality, carcinogenicity,...
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| description | Use of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides is ubiquitous in US agriculture and widespread around the world. Despite marketing efforts to the contrary, numerous studies demonstrate glyphosate toxicity to non-target organisms including animals, primarily focusing on mortality, carcinogenicity, renal toxicity, reproductive, and neurological toxicity, and the biochemical mechanisms underlying these physiological outcomes. Glyphosate toxicity also impacts animal behavior, both in model systems and in agricultural and environmentally relevant contexts. In this review, we examine the effects of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides on animal behaviors, particularly activity, foraging and feeding, anti-predator behavior, reproductive behaviors, learning and memory, and social behaviors. Glyphosate can be detected both in food and in the environment, and avoided through activity and feeding strategies. However, exposure also reduces activity, depresses foraging and feeding, increases susceptibility to predation, interferes with courtship, mating, fertility and maternal behaviors, decreases learning and memory capabilities, and disrupts social behaviors. Changes in animal behavior as a result of glyphosate toxicity are important because of their sometimes severe effects on individual fitness, as well as ecosystem health. Implications for human behavior are also considered. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dde1a6301cac4cd880808e18c6e889382023-11-19T09:08:44ZengMDPI AGAgrochemicals2813-31452023-07-012336740810.3390/agrochemicals2030022The Herbicide Glyphosate and Its Formulations Impact Animal Behavior across TaxaBecky Talyn0Kelly Muller1Cindy Mercado2Bryan Gonzalez3Katherine Bartels4College of Natural Sciences, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407, USASchool of Medicine, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USADepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407, USADepartment of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407, USADepartment of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407, USAUse of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides is ubiquitous in US agriculture and widespread around the world. Despite marketing efforts to the contrary, numerous studies demonstrate glyphosate toxicity to non-target organisms including animals, primarily focusing on mortality, carcinogenicity, renal toxicity, reproductive, and neurological toxicity, and the biochemical mechanisms underlying these physiological outcomes. Glyphosate toxicity also impacts animal behavior, both in model systems and in agricultural and environmentally relevant contexts. In this review, we examine the effects of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides on animal behaviors, particularly activity, foraging and feeding, anti-predator behavior, reproductive behaviors, learning and memory, and social behaviors. Glyphosate can be detected both in food and in the environment, and avoided through activity and feeding strategies. However, exposure also reduces activity, depresses foraging and feeding, increases susceptibility to predation, interferes with courtship, mating, fertility and maternal behaviors, decreases learning and memory capabilities, and disrupts social behaviors. Changes in animal behavior as a result of glyphosate toxicity are important because of their sometimes severe effects on individual fitness, as well as ecosystem health. Implications for human behavior are also considered.https://www.mdpi.com/2813-3145/2/3/22glyphosateRoundup<sup>®</sup>activityfeedinganti-predatorreproductive behavior |
| spellingShingle | Becky Talyn Kelly Muller Cindy Mercado Bryan Gonzalez Katherine Bartels The Herbicide Glyphosate and Its Formulations Impact Animal Behavior across Taxa Agrochemicals glyphosate Roundup<sup>®</sup> activity feeding anti-predator reproductive behavior |
| title | The Herbicide Glyphosate and Its Formulations Impact Animal Behavior across Taxa |
| title_full | The Herbicide Glyphosate and Its Formulations Impact Animal Behavior across Taxa |
| title_fullStr | The Herbicide Glyphosate and Its Formulations Impact Animal Behavior across Taxa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Herbicide Glyphosate and Its Formulations Impact Animal Behavior across Taxa |
| title_short | The Herbicide Glyphosate and Its Formulations Impact Animal Behavior across Taxa |
| title_sort | herbicide glyphosate and its formulations impact animal behavior across taxa |
| topic | glyphosate Roundup<sup>®</sup> activity feeding anti-predator reproductive behavior |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2813-3145/2/3/22 |
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