Tursiops truncatus

A number of other chemicals suspected of having endocrine disrupting potential also occur at high levels in the tissues of marine mammals. For example, tribiityltin compounds are present in the tissues of the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias juhatus) from Hokaido, Japan, and in stranded bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) found along the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts.Additional chemicals detected include PAHs, toxaphene and chlordane. ... 

Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus South Carolina found stranded liver <0.1 FW 180... 

Schlosberg, A., M. Bellaiche, S. Regev, R. Gal, M. Brizzi, V. Hanji, L. Zaidel, and A. Nyska. 1997. Lead toxicosis in a captive bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) consequent to ingestion of air gun pellets. Jour. Wildl. Dis. 33 135-139. 

Betti, C. and M. Nigro. 1996. The Comet assay for the evaluation of the genetic hazard of pollutants in cetaceans preliminary results on the genotoxic effects of methyl-mercury on the bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) lymphocytes in vitro. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 32 545-548. 

Wood, C.M. and E.S. Van Vleet. 1996. Copper, cadmium and zinc in liver, kidney and muscle tissues of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) stranded in Florida. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 32 886-889. 

Beck, B.M., Rice, C.D., Serum antibody levels against select bacterial pathogens in Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, from Beaufort, North Carolina, USA and Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, Mar. Environ. Res., 55, 161, 2003. 

Lundqvist, M.L. et al., Cloning of the IgM heavy chain of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), and initial analysis of VH gene usage, Develop. Comp. Immunol., 26,551,2002. 

Lahvis, G.P. et al., In vitro lymphocyte response of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) mitogen induced proliferation, Afar Environ. Res., 35, 115, 1993. 

Erickson, K.L. et al., Development of an interleukin-2 receptor expression assay and its use in evaluation of cellular immune responses in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), J. Wildlife. Dis., 31, 142, 1995. 

Romano, T.A., Ridgway, S.H., and Quaranta, V., MHC class-II molecules and immunoglobulins on peripheral blood lymphocytes of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, J. Exp. Zool., 263, 96, 1992. 

Zabka, T.S., Romano, T.A., Distribution of MHC II (+) cells in skin of the Atlantic bottle-nose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) an initial investigation of dolphin dendritic cells, Anat. Rec., 273A, 636, 2003. 

Inoue, Y. et al., Cloning and sequencing of a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) interleukin-1 alpha and -lbeta complementary DNAs, J. Vet. Med. Sci., 61, 1317, 1999. 

Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Blubber Muscle... 

During a mass mortality event on the south Atlantic coast in 1987 1 988, blubber samples were collected from three bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus)-, these samples contained 180 220 ng PBDEs/g lipid (Kuehl et al. 1991). Blubber samples, taken from stranded bottlenose dolphins from several locations around the Gulf of Mexico in 1990, contained 3,110 ng PBDEs/g lipid (Kuehl and Haebler 1995). On... 

Kuehl DW, Haebler R. 1995. Organochlorine, organobromine, metal and selenium residues in bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus) collected during an unusual mortality event in the Gulf of Mexico. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 28(4) 494-499. 

Carballo, M., et al. (2008) Organochlorine residues in the blubber and liver of botdenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) stranded in the Canary Islands, North Atlantic Ocean. Environmental Toxicology 2008 200-10. http //www.ncbi.nhn.nih.gov/pubmed/18214918. Cited 28 January 2009. 

Houde, M., Wells, R. S., Fair, P. A., Bossart, G. D., Hohn, A. A., Rowles, T. K., et al. Polyfluorinated compounds in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus) from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Environ. Sci. TechnoL, 39 6591-6598 (2005). 

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