Comment on Linking the Sex Difference in PCB Concentrations of Fish to Release of Eggs at Spawning Time to Jettison the Dogma

Charles P Madenjian
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Charles P Madenjian: U. S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center, USA

Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal, 2017, vol. 5, issue 2, 42-44

Abstract: For the past 20 years or so, a commonly used explanation in the scientific literature for higher polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations in male fish than in female fish has been that females lose a high proportion of their PCB body burden by releasing eggs at spawning time, and therefore the females undergo a substantial decrease in their PCB concentration immediately after spawning due to shedding of their eggs [1]. Indeed, this explanation can be viewed as the conventional wisdom used by toxicologists to account for differences in PCB concentrations between the sexes of fish.

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Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/OFOAJ.2017.05.555661

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