Assessment of mercury and selenium concentrations in captive bottlenose dolphin's (Tursiops truncatus) diet fish, blood, and tissue

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 414, Issue , 2012, Pages 220-226

  Hong, Yong Seok ^a,c   Hunter, Sue ^b   Clayton, Leigh A ^b   Rifkin, Erik ^c   Bouwer, Edward J ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b National Aquarium Baltimore   (United States)

^c National Aquarium Conservation Center in National Aquarium Baltimore   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Diet fish; Mercury; Selenium; Toxicity; Whole blood

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BALTIMORE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; FLORIDA; HG CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY AND SELENIUM; MOLAR CONCENTRATION; MOLAR RATIO; MONOMETHYLMERCURY; NEUROTOXICITY; SOUTH CAROLINA; TISSUE SAMPLES; TOTAL MERCURIES; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; UPTAKE RATE; WHOLE BLOOD;

BLOOD; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; FISH; MERCURY (METAL); METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NUTRITION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SELENIUM; TISSUE; TOXICITY;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; MONOMETHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIET; DOLPHIN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; SELENIUM; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FOOD COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICOKINETICS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FISHES; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 84855538843     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.11.021     Document Type: Article

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