Exploring the use of skin biopsies to infer organ mercury burden in long‐finned pilot whales

Ryan McCarthy; Christoph Gade; Joanna Kershaw; Mariel T. I. ten Doeschate; Nicholas J. Davison; Andrew Brownlow; Rebecca von Hellfeld

doi:10.1111/mms.70170

Exploring the use of skin biopsies to infer organ mercury burden in long‐finned pilot whales

Ryan McCarthy
, Christoph Gade
, Joanna Kershaw
, Mariel T. I. ten Doeschate
, Nicholas J. Davison
, Andrew Brownlow
, Rebecca von Hellfeld^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	e70170
Number of pages	8
Journal	Marine Mammal Science
Volume	42
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.70170
Publication status	Published - 8 Apr 2026

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Keywords

Mass stranding event
Marine pollution
Ecotoxicology
Metal contamination
Cetaceans
Bioaccumulation

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