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Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A comprehensive screening of different environmental contaminants (total metals, thermostable metal fractions associated with detoxification, and persistent organic pollutants) was conducted in an endangered common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus ) individual incidentally captured in southeastern Brazil.
Sidney Fernandes Sales Junior +10 more
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Strengthening community‐based fisheries monitoring programs with Indigenous perspectives
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Community‐based monitoring (CBM) programs are increasingly recognized as essential for adaptive environmental stewardship. Yet, the CBM literature often highlights successful cases and privileges evaluations by external experts over those of community members themselves.
Kanwaljeet Dewan +2 more
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Toxics, 2018 Seafood is an important component in a healthy diet and may contain methylmercury or other contaminants. It is important to recognize the risks and benefits of consuming seafood. A longitudinal prospective birth cohort study has been conducted to clarify
Nozomi Tatsuta +4 more
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npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021 Methylmercury, biomagnifying through food chains, is highly toxic for aquatic life. Its production and degradation are largely driven by microbial transformations; however, diversity and metabolic activity of mercury transformers, resulting in ...
Adrien Vigneron +4 more
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Methylmercury in marine fish from Malaysian waters and its relationship to total mercury content. [PDF]
, 2010 The study evaluated methylmercury concentrations, the methylmercury to total mercury ratio (%MeHg) and their correlations in ten fish species from different trophic levels.
Abu Bakar, Fatimah +3 more
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Mercury and methylmercury in muscle tissue of chub from the Elbe River main tributaries
Czech Journal of Food Sciences, 2008 The aim of the present study was to investigate the concentrations of total mercury and methylmercury in muscle of 55 chub (Leuciscus cephalus) from seven main tributaries (Orlice, Chrudimka, Cidlina, Jizera, Vltava, Ohře, Bílina) of the Elbe River and ...
Kamila KRUŽÍKOVÁ +4 more
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Health Information and the Choice of Fish Species: An Experiment Measuring the Impact of Risk and Benefit Information, April 2006 [PDF]
, 2006 An experiment was conducted in France to evaluate the impact of health information on consumers’ choice between two different types of fish. Successive messages revealing risks (methylmercury) and benefits (omega-3s) of consuming the fish, along with ...
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Climate-driven sulfate export in alpine watersheds may stimulate methylmercury production
Environmental Research LettersClimate change is increasing sulfate export and changing wetland extent in mountain regions. These changes may increase microbially mediated production of the neurotoxic substance methylmercury due to enhanced sulfate metabolism in mountain environments.
Hannah R Miller +3 more
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Disease burden of methylmercury in the German birth cohort 2014. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 This study aimed to estimate the disease burden of methylmercury for children born in Germany in the year 2014. Humans are mainly exposed to methylmercury when they eat fish or seafood. Prenatal methylmercury exposure is associated with IQ loss.
Julia Lackner +3 more
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International Review of Hydrobiology, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2026.ABSTRACT Lentic ecosystems are vulnerable to contamination by trace elements, which can accumulate and pose risks to aquatic life and human health. In a large, developing country such as Brazil, marked by vast geographic, environmental, and socioeconomic diversity, it is crucial to understand how these factors shape research on this group of ...
Maria C. F. Neuenschwander +4 more
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