Biomagnification of mercury and selenium in blue shark Prionace glauca from the Pacific Ocean off Mexico

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 550-559

  Escobar Sánchez, Ofelia ^a   Galván Magaña, Felipe ^a   Rosíles Martínez, René ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Biomagnification; Heavy metal; Mercury; Selenium; Shark

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; SELENIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY SIZE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIONACE GLAUCA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHARK; TISSUE LEVEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRACHYURA; CEPHALOPODA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; MALE; MERCURY; MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERCIFORMES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELENIUM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHARKS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AUXIS; CHONDRICHTHYES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PLEURONCODES PLANIPES; PRIONACE GLAUCA;

EID: 84155165117     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: 15590720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-011-9040-y     Document Type: Article

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