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Prevalence of heterotrophic methylmercury detoxifying bacteria across oceanic regions

2021-08-10

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Microbial reduction of inorganic divalent mercury (Hg 2+ ) and methylmercury (MeHg) demethylation is performed by the mer operon, specifically by merA and merB genes respectively, but little is known about the mercury tolerance capacity of marine microorganisms and its prevalence in the global ocean. Here, we explored the distribution of these genes in 290 marine heterotrophic bacteria ( Al...

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Literature Corpus work: 7289cf35-a9b9-5f0b-8ecc-f407020ef05c
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.09.455674

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