Table 2.

Se:Hg molar ratio in flatfish caught from 1000 m off of the coast of California (n = 5 muscle samples for each fish, with standard errors), plus in a flatfish from the Aleutian study (n = 39; Burger et al., 2014). Dover sole 2 had a higher value than all others (*; p < 0.02) except compared to Deep-sea sole 2 (p = 0.15), while the flathead sole value was statistically lower (†; p < 0.001) than all of our samples.

Dover Sole 1	Dover Sole 2	Dover Sole 3	Deep-sea Sole 1	Deep-sea Sole 2	Deep-sea Sole 3	Aleutians Flathead Sole
12.6 ± 4	40 ± 15*	19 ± 4	8 ± 2	24 ± 6	6.0 ± 0.5	1.44 ± 0.1†