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Pollut. 220(Part B)</i>: 1090-1099. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.11.032\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.11.032</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Das, K.; Malarvannan, G.; Dirtu, A.; Dulau, V.; Dumont, M.; Lepoint, G.; Mongin, P.; Covaci, A.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Das, K. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Humpback whales, <i>Megaptera novaeangliae,</i> breeding off la Reunion Island (Indian Ocean) undergo large-scale seasonal migrations between summer feeding grounds near Antarctica and their reproductive winter grounds in the Indian Ocean. The main scope of the current study was to investigate chemical exposure of humpback whales breeding in the Indian Ocean by providing the first published data on this breeding stock concerning persistent organic pollutants (POPs), namely polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), chlordane compounds (CHLs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and methoxylated PBDEs (MeO-PBDEs). Analyses of stable isotopes δ<sup>13</sup>C and δ<sup>15</sup>N in skin resulted in further insight in their feeding ecology, which was in agreement with a diet focused mainly on low trophic level prey species, such as krill from Antarctica. POPs were measured in all humpback whales in the order of HCB > DDTs > CHLs > HCHs > PCBs > PBDEs > MeO-BDEs. HCB (median: 24 ng g<sup>−1</sup> lw) and DDTs (median: 7.7 ng g<sup>−1</sup> lw) were the predominant compounds in all whale biopsies. 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