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Persistent organochlorine residues in harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) from the Black Sea.
1997
Tanabe S. | Madhusree B. | Ozturk A.A. | Tatsukawa R. | Miyazaki N. | Ozdamar E. | Aral O. | Samsun O. | Ozturk B.
Concentrations and accumulation patterns of organochlorine contaminants in the blubber of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, from the coast of Newfoundland, the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine
1997
Westgate, A.J. | Muir, D.C.G. | Gaskin, D.E. | Kingsley, M.C.S. (Duke University Marine Laboratory, 135 Duke Marine Laboratory Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 (USA))
Organochlorine pesticide residues and PCBs in harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) incidentally caught in Scandinavian waters
1995
Kleivane, L. | Skaare, J.U. | Bjorge, A. | Ruiter, E. de | Reijnders, P.J.H. (Department of Biology, University of Oslo, PO Box 1037 Blindern, 0315 Oslo 3 (Norway))
Levels of organochlorine compounds, including PCDDS and PCDFS, in the blubber of cetaceans from the west coast of North America
1996
Jarman, W.M. | Norstrom, R.J. | Muir, D.C.G. | Rosenberg, B. | Simon, M. | Baird, R.W. (Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (USA))
Isomer-specific analysis of polychlorinated biphenyls in harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) from the Black Sea
1997
Tanabe, S. | Madhusree, B. | Ozturk, A.A. | Tatsukawa, R. | Miyazaki, N. | Ozdamar, E. | Aral, O. | Samsun, O. | Ozturk, B. (Department of Environment Conservation, Ehime University, Tarumi 3-5-7, Matsuyama 790 (Japan))
Organochlorines in Danish and west Greenland harbour porpoises
1991
Granby, K. | Kinze, C.C. (National Environmental Research Institute, 4000 Roskilde (Denmark))
PFAS profiles in three North Sea top predators: metabolic differences among species?
2013
Galatius, Anders | Bossi, Rossana | Sonne, Christian | Rigét, Frank Farsø | Kinze, Carl Christian | Lockyer, Christina | Teilmann, Jonas | Dietz, Rune
Profiles of seven compounds of perfluoro-alkyl substances (PFASs) were compared among three species of top predators from the Danish North Sea: the white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris), the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), and the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina). The seals had higher total burdens (757.8 ng g(-1) ww) than the dolphins (439.9 ng g(-1) ww) and the porpoises (355.8 ng g(-1) ww), probably a reflection of feeding closer to the shore and thus contamination sources. The most striking difference among the species was the relative contribution of perfluorooctanesulfonamide (PFOSA) to the profiles; the seals (0.1 %) had much lower levels than porpoises (8.3 %) and dolphins (26.0 %). In combination with the values obtained from the literature, this result indicates that Carnivora species including Pinnipedia have a much higher capacity of transforming PFOSA to perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) than cetacean species. Another notable difference among the species was that the two smaller species (seals and porpoises) with supposedly higher metabolic rates had lower concentrations of the perfluorinated carboxylic acids, which are generally more easily excreted than perfluorinated sulfonamides. Species-specific characteristics should be recognized when PFAS contamination in marine mammals is investigated, for example, several previous studies of PFASs in cetaceans have not quantified PFOSA.
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