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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi

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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10141)4/22/1998 7:15:00 PM
From: jhild  Read Replies (3) of 71178
 
Good thing they didn't give them any Viagra.

Life is a day at the beach for clams on Prozac
Thursday April 16 4:46 PM EDT

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Prozac, the mood-altering drug used to control depression in people, also can play a productive role in the lives of clams and mussels by getting them in the mood to spawn, a biologist said Thursday.

Research by Gettysburg College biology professor Peter Fong shows that the widely prescribed anti-depressant stimulates spawning in freshwater fingernail clams and zebra mussels. Rarely has either animal been observed to spawn in the wild or in the laboratory without the use of an artificial chemical aid.

"A little bit of Prozac goes a long way," Fong said in an interview.
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