Table 3.
Average concentrations of heavy metals (μg/g dry wt) in various tissues of Penaeus semiculatus collected from the Yumurtalik coast of Iskenderun Gulf.
| Metals | Tissues | Months |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | July | October | January | ||
| Muscle | 28.50 ± 3.85 ax | 34.23 ± 1.18 bx | 26.44 ± 1.43 ax | 19.35 ± 1.29 cx | |
| Cu | Gill | 210.3 ± 14.3 ay | 423.1 ± 10.6 by | 140.6 ± 6.21 cy | 146.9 ± 4.77 cy |
| Liver | 440.6 ± 21.2 az | 710.2 ± 8.23 bz | 577.6 ± 32.8 cz | 404.6 ± 1.63 az | |
| Muscle | 6.52 ± 0.90 ax | 8.33 ± 0.13 bx | 7.44 ± 0.13 cx | 6.59 ± 0.10 ax | |
| Cd | Gill | 24.86 ± 1.03 ay | 38.07 ± 2.59 by | 25.25 ± 2.02 ay | 18.10 ± 0.80 cy |
| Liver | 16.45 ± 0.15 az | 27.62 ± 0.15 bz | 15.88 ± 0.46 az | 15.97 ± 0.82 az | |
| Muscle | 43.56 ± 0.78 ax | 61.42 ± 3.33 bx | 45.12 ± 1.87 ax | 37.43 ± 2.35 ax | |
| Zn | Gill | 159.7 ± 11.5 ay | 953.4 ± 43.5 by | 125.5 ± 2.44 ay | 147.5 ± 12.1 ay |
| Liver | 674.1 ± 48.9 az | 1071.2 ± 79.4 by | 441.4 ± 13.0 cz | 344.2 ± 9.28 cz | |
| Muscle | 25.03 ± 1.85 ax | 62.75 ± 0.58 bx | 49.78 ± 4.40 cx | 22.18 ± 0.62 ax | |
| Pb | Gill | 127.8 ± 6.56 ay | 237.3 ± 18.1 by | 146.8 ± 8.39 ay | 142.0 ± 12.3 ay |
| Liver | 63.99 ± 0.97 az | 85.03 ± 1.62 bx | 63.39 ± 3.92 ax | 61.89 ± 1.76 az | |
| Muscle | 16.15 ± 0.77 ax | 24.23 ± 0.94 bx | 17.01 ± 2.67 ax | 22.5 ± 1.64 bx | |
| Fe | Gill | 445.4 ± 24.8 ay | 552.2 ± 17.4 by | 311.4 ± 13.0 cy | 259.4 ± 7.0 d |
| Liver | 158.0 ± 5.16 az | 346.8 ± 16.5 bz | 101.2 ± 3.39 cz | 148.1 ± 9.29 az | |
Different letters (a, b) within a row indicate significant differences among seasons; different letters (x, y, z) within a column indicate significant differences among tissues (ANOVA p < 0.05).