PMID- 18272207
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080710
LR  - 20080303
IS  - 0048-9697 (Print)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 393
IP  - 2-3
DP  - 2008 Apr 15
TI  - Geographic specificity of Aroclor 1268 in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops 
      truncatus) frequenting the Turtle/Brunswick River Estuary, Georgia (USA).
PG  - 367-75
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.12.031 [doi]
AB  - Coastal marine resources are at risk from anthropogenic contaminants, including 
      legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with half-lives of decades or more. 
      To determine if polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) signatures can be used to 
      distinguish among local populations of inshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops 
      truncatus) along the southeastern U.S. coast, blubber from free-ranging and 
      stranded animals were collected along the Georgia coast in 2004 and analyzed for 
      PCB congeners using gas chromatography with electron capture and negative 
      chemical ionization mass spectrometric detection (GC-ECD and GC-NCI-MS). Mean 
      total PCB concentrations (77+/-34 microg/g lipid) were more than 10 fold higher 
      and congener distributions were highly enriched in Cl(7)-Cl(10) homologs in 
      free-ranging animals from the Turtle/Brunswick River estuary (TBRE) compared with 
      strandings samples from Savannah area estuaries 90 km to the north. Using 
      principal components analysis (PCA), the Aroclor 1268 signature associated with 
      TBRE animals was distinct from that observed in Savannah area animals, and also 
      from those in animals biopsied in other southeastern U.S estuaries. Moreover, PCB 
      signatures in dolphin blubber closely resembled those in local preferred prey 
      fish species, strengthening the hypothesis that inshore T. truncatus populations 
      exhibit long-term fidelity to specific estuaries and making them excellent 
      sentinels for assessing the impact of stressors on coastal ecosystem health.
FAU - Pulster, Erin L
AU  - Pulster EL
AD  - Marine Sciences Department, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA 31404, USA. 
      epulster@mote.org
FAU - Maruya, Keith A
AU  - Maruya KA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
DEP - 20080212
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Aroclor 1268)
RN  - 0 (Aroclors)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adipose Tissue/metabolism
MH  - Animals
MH  - Aroclors/*metabolism
MH  - Bottle-Nosed Dolphin/*metabolism
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Female
MH  - Geography
MH  - Georgia
MH  - Male
MH  - Rivers
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*metabolism
EDAT- 2008/02/15 09:00
MHDA- 2008/07/11 09:00
CRDT- 2008/02/15 09:00
PHST- 2007/11/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2007/12/14 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2007/12/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2008/02/15 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/07/11 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/02/15 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(07)01343-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.12.031 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2008 Apr 15;393(2-3):367-75. doi: 
      10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.12.031. Epub 2008 Feb 12.