Mercury in cetaceans: exposure, bioaccumulation and toxicity

JL Kershaw, AJ Hall - Science of The Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The fate and transportation of mercury in the marine environment are driven by a
combination of anthropogenic atmospheric and aquatic sources, as well as natural …

Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) as A Sentinel for Exposure to Mercury in Humans: Closing the Loop

JS Reif, AM Schaefer, GD Bossart - Veterinary Sciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
Mercury (Hg) is a ubiquitous global contaminant with important public health implications.
Mercury is released from a variety of anthropogenic, industrial processes, enters the earth's …

Spatiotemporal Trends of Heavy Metals in Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins (Sousa chinensis) from the Western Pearl River Estuary, China

D Gui, RQ Yu, L Karczmarski, Y Ding… - Environmental …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We assessed the spatiotemporal trends of the concentrations of 11 heavy metals (HMs) in
the liver and kidney of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) from western …

Concentrations of trace elements in tissues of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) from the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian coastlines (Calabria, Italy)

S Canzanella, A Danese, M Mandato… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Toxic trace elements from both, natural and anthropogenic origin, pose a threat to aquatic
environments and marine wildlife due to their long-range transport, bioaccumulative nature …

Two cetacean species reveal different long-term trends for toxic trace elements in European Atlantic French waters

P Méndez-Fernandez, J Spitz, C Dars, W Dabin… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Cetaceans have been naturally exposed to toxic trace elements (TEs) on an evolutionary
time scale. Hence, they have developed mechanisms to control and/or mitigate their toxic …

Hexavalent chromium induces oxidative stress and mitochondria-mediated apoptosis in isolated skin fibroblasts of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin

X Yu, RQ Yu, D Gui, X Zhang, F Zhan, X Sun, Y Wu - Aquatic Toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
The increasing gas emissions and industrial wastewater discharge of anthropogenic
hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) have been growing health concerns to the high trophic level …

Trace metals in striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) stranded along the Murcia coastline, Mediterranean Sea, during the period 2009–2015.

E Martínez-López, J Peñalver, A Escriña, L Lara… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), selenium (Se) and arsenic (As)
concentrations in internal tissues of 72 striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from Murcia …

Body burdens and distribution of mercury and selenium in bottlenose, striped and Risso's dolphins along the Adriatic coast: A 20-year retrospective

M Sedak, N Bilandžić, M Đokić, M Đuras… - Marine pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Top marine predators present high mercury concentrations in their tissues due to
biomagnification in the marine food chain. This study reports mercury (Hg) and selenium …

Bioassessment of trace element contamination of Mediterranean coastal waters using the seagrass Posidonia oceanica

J Richir, M Salivas-Decaux, C Lafabrie… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
A large scale survey of the trace element (TE) contamination of Mediterranean coastal
waters was performed from the analysis of Ag, As, Cd, Cu, Hg, Ni and Pb in the bioindicator …

Decadal declines of mercury in adult bluefish (1972–2011) from the mid-Atlantic coast of the USA

FA Cross, DW Evans, RT Barber - Environmental science & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Concentrations of total mercury were measured in muscle of adult bluefish (Pomatomus
saltatrix) collected in 2011 off North Carolina and compared with similar measurements …