Females Exceed Males in Mercury Concentrations of Burbot Lota lota

• Published in: Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 678 - 688
• Main Authors: Madenjian, Charles P., Stapanian, Martin A., Cott, Peter A., Krabbenhoft, David P., Edwards, William H., Ogilvie, Lynn M., Mychek-Londer, Justin G., DeWild, John F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.05.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adults; Androgens; Animals; Bioaccumulation; Bioenergetics; Body weight; Canada; Concentration (composition); Contaminants; Contamination; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental Monitoring; Feeding rates; Female; Females; Fish; Food chains; Gadiformes - metabolism; Geology; Gonads; Indicator organisms; Lake Erie; Lakes; Lota lota; Male; Males; Mercury; Mercury (metal); Mercury - metabolism; Metabolism; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; PCB; Pollution; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polychlorinated Biphenyls - metabolism; Sex; Sex Factors; Soil Science & Conservation; Spawning; Studies; Testes; Toxicity; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Water Pollutants, Chemical - metabolism; Water pollution; Canada; United States > US; North America, Erie L; PNW, Canada, Northwest Terr; Canada, Northwest Terr., Great Slave L; Lake Trout; Standard Metabolic Rate; Gross Growth Efficiency; Great Slave Lake; MeHg Concentration

Examination of differences in contaminant concentrations between the sexes of fish, across several fish species, may show clues for important behavioral and physiological differences between the sexes. We determined whole-fish total mercury (Hg) concentrations of 25 male and 25 female adult burbot L...