Essential and non-essential element concentrations in two sleeper shark species collected in arctic waters

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: McMeans, Bailey C., Borgå, Katrine, Bechtol, William R., Higginbotham, David, Fisk, Aaron T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2007
• Subjects: Greenland shark; Hepatic tissue; Metals; Pacific sleeper shark; Somniosus; Arctic; Greenland; Pacific; Cumberland Sound; Somniosus microcephalus
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/415; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2006.10.039

A number of elements/metals have increased in arctic biota and are of concern due to their potential toxicity. Most studies on elements in the Arctic have focused on marine mammals and seabirds, but concentrations in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) and Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus...