Physiological and molecular biomarkers of environmental contaminant-associated immunotoxicity in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina)

• Main Author: Mos, Elisabeth
• Other Authors: Koop, Benjamin F., Ross, Peter S.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: harbor seal; Polychlorinated biphenyls; environmental aspects; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Biology; Canada; British Columbia; harbour seal; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2132

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been contaminating the marine environment since the mid 2Oth Century and continue to do so today. The polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are of particular concern, since they are found at high concentrations in marine mammals throughout the Northern Hemisphere...