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Marine snow as a habitat for microbial mercury methylators in the Baltic Sea

2020-03-05

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Methylmercury (MeHg), a neurotoxic compound biomagnifying in aquatic food webs, can be a threat to human health via fish consumption. However, the composition and distribution of the microbial communities mediating the methylation of mercury (Hg) to MeHg in marine systems remain largely unknown. In order to fill this gap of knowledge, we used the Baltic Sea Reference Metagenome (BARM) dataset to study the distribu...

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DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.04.975987

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