PMID- 33928683 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220414 LR - 20220414 IS - 1552-8618 (Electronic) IS - 0730-7268 (Linking) VI - 40 IP - 8 DP - 2021 Aug TI - Determinants of Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutant Levels in the European Pond Turtle (Emys orbicularis) in the Camargue Wetland, France. PG - 2261-2268 LID - 10.1002/etc.5077 [doi] AB - Many banned persistent organic pollutants (POPs) remain for decades in the aquatic environment and can have harmful effects on long-lived predators because of their high bioaccumulation and biomagnification potentials. We investigated the occurrence and levels of 18 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and 16 organochlorine pesticides in European pond turtles (n = 174) from April to July 2018 in the Camargue wetland, France. Although the Camargue was highly contaminated in previous decades, plasma occurrence and levels of POPs were very low: we were able to quantify only 3 of the 34 compounds we analyzed in >10% of the turtles. The burdens from POPs did not differ between males and females and were uncorrelated with sampling date and body mass. We observed differences in POP burdens between turtles from the 2 sampling sites. One possible explanation is that the sampling sites were in different agricultural hydraulic systems: plasma occurrence and levels were higher for PCB-52 and hexachlorobenzene in turtles captured in drainage channels and for PCB-153 at the site that receives irrigation. Finally, the occurrence and levels of PCB-153 in turtles increased with age, likely because of bioaccumulation and much higher exposure 20 to 30 yr ago than now. Environ Toxicol Chem 2021;40:2261-2268. (c) 2021 SETAC. CI - (c) 2021 SETAC. FAU - Burkart, Louisiane AU - Burkart L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1401-6279 AD - Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, UMR 7619 Sorbonne University, Paris, France. FAU - Olivier, Anthony AU - Olivier A AD - La Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands, Arles, France. FAU - Lourdais, Olivier AU - Lourdais O AD - Centre d'etudes biologiques de Chize, CNRS, UMR 7372, Villiers en Bois, France. AD - School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. FAU - Vittecoq, Marion AU - Vittecoq M AD - La Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands, Arles, France. AD - MIGEVEC Laboratoire maladies infectieuses & vecteurs: ecologie, genetique evolution et controle, UMR (CNRS/IRD 224/UM), Montpellier, France. FAU - Blouin-Demers, Gabriel AU - Blouin-Demers G AD - Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. FAU - Alliot, Fabrice AU - Alliot F AD - Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, UMR 7619 Sorbonne University, Paris, France. FAU - Le Gac, Clement AU - Le Gac C AD - La Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands, Arles, France. FAU - Martin, Nicolas AU - Martin N AD - La Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands, Arles, France. FAU - Goutte, Aurelie AU - Goutte A AD - Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, UMR 7619 Sorbonne University, Paris, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20210602 PL - United States TA - Environ Toxicol Chem JT - Environmental toxicology and chemistry JID - 8308958 RN - 0 (Environmental Pollutants) RN - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated) RN - 0 (Pesticides) RN - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Environmental Monitoring MH - *Environmental Pollutants MH - Female MH - *Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated MH - Male MH - Persistent Organic Pollutants MH - *Pesticides MH - *Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis MH - *Turtles MH - Wetlands OTO - NOTNLM OT - Delta wetlands OT - Organochlorine pesticides OT - Polychlorinated biphenyl OT - Reptiles EDAT- 2021/05/01 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/15 06:00 CRDT- 2021/04/30 07:13 PHST- 2021/01/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/12/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/04/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/05/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/04/30 07:13 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/etc.5077 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Toxicol Chem. 2021 Aug;40(8):2261-2268. doi: 10.1002/etc.5077. Epub 2021 Jun 2.