Frontiers | Could persistent organic pollutants affect future generations of sea turtles by
maternal transfer? First results for Caretta caretta nests along the North-Western coast of Italy …

… study confirms the use of turtle eggs as a pollution monitoring … and human activities on sea
turtle populations needed for the … in the loggerhead turtle, the maternal transfer of these toxic …

… years before being transferred from the mother to offspring … in oceanic locations that might
be hard to monitor otherwise. (… mydas and Dermochelys coriacea, Figure S3 for all species). …

… Persistent organic pollutants … data given the persistent, low concentrations of some POPs
in the environment. We focussed on loggerhead turtles where the maternal transfer rates have …

… for monitoring environmental pollution, with certain POPs … Among these species, Dermochelys
coriacea has been … could not be confirmed since lung tissue was not taken in our study. …

… seven species of sea turtles: leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), … , heavy metals, and
persistent organic pollutants and toxicity. … Health parameters in sea turtles have been monitored in …

… Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) eggs in Costa … not confirmed, it is postulated
that SBNWR/SGR green sea … patterns found, additional monitoring of turtles within the Los …

… -monitoring for ocean pollution, this study also contributes to the limited baseline concentrations
of contaminants in Northwest Atlantic leatherbacks. … the transfer of metals from mother to …

… Persistent organic pollutants in the green sea turtle Chelonia … tool for monitoring the health
and physiological status of sea turtles, … turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) point to a decrease in …

… Thus, it is crucial to monitor POPs in wildlife, especially for … (Caretta caretta; Dermochelys
coriacea; Lepidochelys olivacea), … test confirmed the absence of normal distribution in POPs, …