Mendez-Fernandez, PaulaSimon-Bouhet, BenoitBustamante, PacoChouvelon, TiphaineFerreira, MarisaLopez, AlfredoMoffat, Colin F.Pierce, Graham J.Santos, Maria B.Spitz, JeromeVingada, Jose V.Webster, LyndaRead, Fiona L.González, Angel F.Caurant, Florence2017-11-282017-11-282017-03Mendez-Fernandez , P , Simon-Bouhet , B , Bustamante , P , Chouvelon , T , Ferreira , M , Lopez , A , Moffat , C F , Pierce , G J , Santos , M B , Spitz , J , Vingada , J V , Webster , L , Read , F L , González , A F & Caurant , F 2017 , ' Inter-species differences in polychlorinated biphenyls patterns from five sympatric species of odontocetes : Can PCBs be used as tracers of feeding ecology? ' Ecological Indicators , vol 74 , pp. 98-108 . DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.11.0131470-160XPURE: 72578343PURE UUID: eb21f507-2ff1-4f9f-8a7c-7f43807d4054Scopus: 84996957483http://hdl.handle.net/2164/9627The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of volunteers from the Galician (CEMMA) and Portuguese (SPVS) stranding networks. The authors would like to thank R. Gallois and C. Trichet for their participation on total lipid content analysis. P. Méndez-Fernandez was supported during the research period through a PhD grant from the Fundação do Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia de Portugal and ANIMATE project (SFRH/BD/36766/2007) and through a Science Without Borders (CSF) young talent postdoctoral grant of the Brazilian government. G. J. Pierce acknowledges support from the EU ANIMATE project (MEXC-CT-2006-042337), University of Aveiro and Caixa Geral de Depósitos (Portugal).11eng© 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/persistent organic pollutantsbiogeochemical tracersmultivariate analysiscetaceansNorthwest Iberian PeninsulaQH301 BiologyQH301Journal articlehttps://doi.org/https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.11.013