• A deep dive into fat: Investigating blubber lipidomic fingerprint of killer whales and humpback whales in northern Norway 

      Bories, Pierre; Rikardsen, Audun H.; Leonards, Pim; Fisk, Aaron T.; Tartu, Sabrina; Vogel, Emma; Bytingsvik, Jenny; Blévin, Pierre (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-01)
      In cetaceans, blubber is the primary and largest lipid body reservoir. Our current understanding about lipid stores and uses in cetaceans is still limited, and most studies only focused on a single narrow snapshot of the lipidome. We documented an extended lipidomic fingerprint in two cetacean species present in northern Norway during wintertime. We were able to detect 817 molecular lipid species ...
    • Phthalate contamination in marine mammals off the Norwegian coast 

      Andvik, Clare Margaret; Bories, Pierre; Harju, Mikael; Borgå, Katrine; Jourdain, Eve Marie; Karoliussen, Richard; Rikardsen, Audun Håvard; Routti, Heli Anna Irmeli; Blévin, Pierre (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-27)
      Phthalates are used in plastics, found throughout the marine environment and have the potential to cause adverse health effects. In the present study, we quantified blubber concentrations of 11 phthalates in 16 samples from stranded and/or free-living marine mammals from the Norwegian coast: the killer whale (Orcinus orca), sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala ...