File S1 - The Role of Canine Distemper Virus and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Mortality Patterns of Caspian Seals (Pusa caspica)

Contains Figures S1–S6 and Tables S1–S5. Figure S1. Map of study areas and sampling sites. Table S1. Pathology and toxicology data for necropsied Caspian seals 1997–2002. Table S2. Age, sex and body length data used to generate Caspian seal growth curves. Figure S2. Overlain data and growth curves for male (filled points, black line) and female (open triangles, grey line) Caspian seals. Table S3. Linear model comparison for PCBs ranked by AIC score. Table S4. Linear model comparison for DDTs ranked by AIC score. Figure S3. Boxplots showing variation in PCBs and DDTs for Country, Season and Year. Figure S4. Plots for analysis of blubber thickness. Figure S5. Plots for regression comparisons of PCBs and DDTs. Table S5. Results of general linear binomial model with logit link function, assessing contributions of organochlorine burden, blubber thickness and sex to CDV status. Figure S6. Photograph showing a high density moulting aggregation of Caspian seals in Komsomoletz Bay, Kazakhstan. (PDF)