Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 296-300Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/etc.750
Keywords
Transplacental transfer; Beluga; Partitioning; PCBs; PBDEs
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- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
- Fisheries Joint Management Committee
- Ecosystem Research Initiative of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Central and Arctic Region)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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This study found that arctic beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) transferred, on average, 11.4% (7.5?mg) and 11.1% (0.1?mg) of their polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) blubber burden to their near-term fetuses. A single physicochemical parameter, log KOW, largely explained this transplacental transfer for PCBs (r2?=?0.79, p?
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