Assessment of mercury and selenium tissular concentrations and total mercury body burden in 6 Steller sea lion pups from the Aleutian Islands. Academic Article

abstract

• Concentrations of total mercury ([THg]) and selenium ([TSe]) were measured in several tissue compartments in Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) pups; in addition we determined specific compartment and body burdens of THg. Compartmental and body burdens were calculated by multiplying specific compartment fresh weight by the [THg] (summing compartment burdens equals body burden). In all 6 pup tissue sets (1) highest [THg] was in hair, (2) lowest [THg] was in bone, and (3) pelt, muscle and liver burdens contributed the top three highest percentages of THg body burden. In 5 of 6 pups the Se:Hg molar ratios among compartments ranged from 0.9 to 43.0. The pup with the highest hair [THg] had Se:Hg molar ratios in 9 of 14 compartments that were 0.7 potentially indicating an inadequate [TSe] relative to [THg].

authors

• O'hara, Todd

published proceedings

• Mar Pollut Bull

author list (cited authors)

• Correa, L., Rea, L. D., Bentzen, R., & O'Hara, T. M.

citation count

• 22

complete list of authors

• Correa, Lucero||Rea, Lorrie D||Bentzen, Rebecca||O'Hara, Todd M

publication date

• January 2014

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN  Journal

keywords

• Alaska
• Animals
• Body Burden
• Bone And Bones
• Burden
• Female
• Hair
• Liver
• Male
• Mercury
• Molar Ratio
• Muscles
• Sea Lions
• Selenium
• Steller Sea Lions
• Tissue Distribution
• Water Pollutants, Chemical

PubMed Central ID

• 24661459

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.02.022

start page

• 175

end page

• 182

volume

• 82

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.02.022