In order to find out the cause of idiopathic scoliosis , scientists have actually done a lot of research, including finding animals that can develop scoliosis. But for a long time, the academic community has believed that vertebrates will not cause scoliosis under natural conditions without artificial intervention. A scientist named Goman discovered that gupppy fish (actually guppy ) would have unknown scoliosis. At the same time, he named this phenomenon "the guppy fish curveback syndrome"
1982, scoliosis fish were also strangely discovered in Belews Lake, North Carolina, USA. The lake was polluted by wastewater from a thermal power plant between 1974 and 1986, and the selenium content of the lake was severely exceeded; then environmentalists discovered a large number of scoliosis fish in the lake (35% incidence). With the decline in the selenium content in lake water, the incidence of scoliosis in fish has also decreased significantly (60-89%).
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