Concentrations of bisphenols and phthalate esters in the muscle of Mediterranean striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba)
Résumé
Bisphenols (BPs) and phthalate esters (PAEs) are important compounds for the plastics industry, which are also called “everywhere chemicals” due to their ubiquity in daily use products. Both chemical groups are well-known environmental contaminants, whose presence has been reported in all environmental compartments, and whose effects, mainly associated to endocrine disruption, are detrimental to living organisms. Cetaceans, due to their long life-span, low reproduction rate and high position in the trophic web, are especially vulnerable to the effects of contaminants. However, little is known about BP and PAE concentrations in cetacean tissues, their potential relation to individual biological variables, or their trends over time. Here, the concentration of 10 BPs and 13 PAEs was assessed in the muscle of 30 striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) stranded along the Spanish Catalan coast (NW Mediterranean) between 1990 and 2018. Six BP and 6 PAE compounds were detected, of which only BPZ was detected in all the samples, at the highest concentration (mean 16.06 µg g-1 lw). Sex or reproductive condition were largely uninfluential on concentrations: only DMP concentrations were significantly higher in immature individuals than in adults, and the overall PAE concentrations were significantly higher in males than in females. Temporal variations were only detected in BPE, DEP and DMP, whose concentrations were lower, and BPFL, which were higher, respectively, in samples taken between 2014-2018, probably reflecting shifts in the production and use of these chemicals. These results provide the first assessment of concentrations of several BP and PAE compounds in the muscle of an odontocete cetacean.
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Conceptualization
Investigation
Writing -Original Draft
Visualization
Supervision Asunción Borrell: Conceptualization
Methodology
Resources
Writing -Review & Editing
Supervision Wissam Sahyoun: Methodology
Formal analysis Sopheak Net: Methodology
Supervision Alex Aguilar: Conceptualization
Supervision Baghdad Ouddane: Methodology
Resources Odei Garcia-Garin: Conceptualization
Formal analysis
Data curation
Project administration
Funding acquisition
Supervision
Asunción Borrell: Conceptualization
Wissam Sahyoun: Methodology
Sopheak Net: Methodology
Alex Aguilar: Conceptualization
Baghdad Ouddane: Methodology
Odei Garcia-Garin: Conceptualization
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Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]
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