Skip to main content

Table 2 Average concentration of pollutants in European eel silver males from the Tiber (N = 30) and Bolsena (N = 6) sites

From: Surviving in a toxic world: transcriptomics and gene expression profiling in response to environmental pollution in the critically endangered European eel

 

Tiber

   

Bolsena

    

Mean

Min

Max

SD

Mean

Min

Max

SD

p

Sum 36 PCBs

489.08

64.19

3836.97

650.59

73.63

14.68

245.01

86.99

0.132

Sum 7 PCBs

214.38

27.24

1442.19

242.09

37.63

6.01

120.32

43.00

0.087

HCB

6.99

2.60

13.99

2.31

4.35

1.35

16.76

6.12

0.071

pp-DDE

45.33

15.10

84.46

16.85

29.29

12.21

54.20

15.14

0.038*

pp-DDT

12.97

4.03

27.11

6.02

5.45

0.75

14.36

5.15

0.007*

Sum 10 PBDEs

44.00

11.42

86.49

18.31

6.68

1.54

25.82

9.43

<0.001*

Sum 3 HBCDs

53.16

3.03

101.63

21.93

6.42

0.55

31.72

12.42

<0.001*

Ag

0.021

DL

0.047

0.012

0.011

0.006

0.017

0.005

0.320

As

0.393

0.161

0.920

0.153

0.353

0.244

0.572

0.116

0.550

Cd

0.026

DL

0.352

0.074

DL

DL

DL

DL

0.401

Co

0.050

0.007

0.274

0.049

0.018

0.006

0.030

0.008

0.124

Cr

0.129

0.033

0.394

0.088

0.095

0.047

0.229

0.068

0.379

Cu

1.742

0.71

4.08

0.681

1.564

1.08

2.54

0.517

0.550

Ni

0.040

0.006

0.147

0.039

0.028

0.016

0.057

0.015

0.467

Pb

0.092

0.006

0.430

0.084

0.049

0.017

0.087

0.023

0.227

Zn

66.135

27.1

155.0

25.857

59.393

41.0

96.4

19.617

0.551

(All Pollutants)

      

F = 2.7

df = 20

0.022*

  1. Univariate and multivariate ANOVAs for equal pollutant bioaccumulation are presented. A Multivariate ANOVA was also conducted on a set of all pollutants combined (Sum 36 PCBs, HCB, pp-DDE, pp-DDT, Sum 10 PBDEs, Sum 3 HBCDs and nine metals). Concentration of PCBs, OCPs and BFRs is expressed in ng/g of wet weight. Metal concentration is expressed in μg/g of dry weight. DL = below detection limit. * = statistically significant.
Back to article page

BMC Genomics

ISSN: 1471-2164

Contact us