(Table 1) Organohalogen contaminants in adipose tissue of captive sledge dogs (Canis familiaris) fed with whale blubber or pork fat

• Main Authors: Verreault, Jonathan, Letcher, Robert J, Sonne, Christian, Dietz, Rune
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: Aasiaat_Canis; Age; standard deviation; Biological sample; BIOS; Chlordane; Description; Disko Bay; Greenland; Female; Food mass; Group; Hexachlorobenzene; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Lipids; Male; Mass; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polychlorinated biphenyl; Sample amount; Sample type; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; International Polar Year; minke whale; polar bear; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.842558; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.842558

Studies on the fate of organohalogen contaminants (OHCs) in wild top predator mammals in the Arctic have often been a challenge due to important knowledge deficiencies in the life history of the sampled animals. The present study investigated the influence of age, dietary and trans-generational fact...