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x Ames, Audra L.; Van Vleet, Edward S.
  1996
Organochlorine residues in the Florida manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris.
Mar. Pollut. Bull. 32(4): 374-377. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Apr. 1996.
–Levels of chlorinated pesticides were found to be low and concentrated in the liver and kidney. Lindane residues in a perinatal manatee showed that the substance was transferred from the mother prior to birth.

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Florida
x  1996Ames & Van Vleet (TML; organochlorine residues; 374-377.)
Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
  *1996Ames et al. (TML; diet determined by stable carbon isotope analysis)
Pollution, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Temperature, Effects of)
x *1996Ames & Van Vleet (TML, Florida; organochlorine residues; 374-377.)
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Hatt, 1934
x  1996Ames & Van Vleet (Florida; organochlorine residues; 374-377.)
   1996Ames et al. (diet determined by stable carbon isotope analysis)