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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Juliana Assunção Ivar do Sul conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Monica Costa conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper.

Gilberto Fillmann conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data/code is included in the manuscript (tables and figures).

Funding

This work was supported by CNPq (Project 557184/2009-6) and the Brazilian Navy though the Project “Environmental contamination by persistent organic compounds, plastic fragments and pellets around the Trindade Island”. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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