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• Main Authors: Gina M. Ylitalo A, Robin W. Baird B, Gladys K. Yanagid, Jennie L. Bolton A, Gregory S. Schorr B, Daniel J. Mcswe
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Reeves; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.582.6556; http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/hawaii/YlitaloetalPseudorcapollutants.pdf

of the world (Hites, 2004; Ikonomou et al., 2002b; LeBeuf et al., 2004). Because these compounds can travel over long distances via atmospheric transport, they have been measured in marine organisms throughout the world, including Antarctica and the Arc-tic (Corsolini et al., 2006; de Wit et al., 2004). Exposure to PBDEs has been associated with a variety of biological effects (e.g., thyroid disruption, neurobehavioral effects) in laboratory animals (de Wit, 2002) but currently no threshold levels for PBDEs have been estab-lished for toxicological effects in marine mammals. POPs (Reeves et al., 2009). Although the details of life history of false killer whales are poorly known, females appear to reach sex-ual maturity between 8 and 14 years (Purves and Pilleri, 1978), have long calving intervals (estimated at 6.9 years), and may reach 62.5 years (Kasuya, 1986). Males are thought to mature as much as 10 years later and live to 57.5 years (Kasuya, 1986). As a long-lived upper-trophic level predator, false killer whales are likely to accu-mulate high levels of POPs. Few individuals have been analyzed for POPs, but high levels have been documented in animals that t al., 1989; Jarman rt concentrations of ples collected from n to determine the ssess whether their or this population. 1932 Baseline /Marine Pollution BulThe main Hawaiian Islands include eight volcanic islands (i.e.