Mobilisation of lipophilic pollutants from blubber in northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris) during the post-weaning fast

• Published in: Environmental Research
• Main Authors: Louis, Caroline, C.Dirtu, Alin, Stas, Marie, Guiot, Yves, Malarvannan, Govindan, Das, Krishna, P.Costa, Daniel, E.Crocker, Daniel, Covaci, Adrien, Debier, Cathy
• Other Authors: UCL - (SLuc) Service d'anatomie pathologique, UCL - SST/ISV - Institut des sciences de la vie, UCL - SSS/IREC/FATH - Pôle de Pharmacologie et thérapeutique, UCL - SSS/IREC/MORF - Pôle de Morphologie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Press 2014
• Subjects: Nes; Nes’; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/145700; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2014.04.016

Northern elephant seals (NES) (Mirounga angustirostris) from the Año Nuevo State Reserve (CA, USA) were longitudinally sampled during the post-weaning fast in order to study the mobilisation and redistribution of various classes of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as polybrominated diphen...