Contamination status of POPs and BFRs and relationship with parasitic infection in finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) from Seto Inland Sea and Omura Bay, Japan

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 5-12, 2011, Pages 564-571

  Isobe, Tomohiko ^a,b   Oshihoi, Tomoko ^a   Hamada, Hiroki ^a   Nakayama, Kei ^a   Yamada, Tadasu K ^c   Tajima, Yuko ^c   Amano, Masao ^d   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finless porpoise; Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDs); Infectious disease; Persistent organic pollutants (POPs); Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)

Indexed keywords

FINLESS PORPOISE; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ETHERS; FLAME RETARDANTS; MAMMALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; FLAME RETARDANT; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BROMINE COMPOUND; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; FISH; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PBDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; JAPAN; MALE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PORPOISE; SEASHORE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLAME RETARDANTS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; JAPAN; MALE; OCEANS AND SEAS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PORPOISES; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

JAPAN; KYUSHU; NAGASAKI [KYUSHU]; OMURA BAY; SETO INLAND SEA;

NEOPHOCAENA PHOCAENOIDES; TREMATODA;

EID: 79960354494     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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