Mercury isotopes of key tissues document mercury metabolic processes in seabirds.
Demethylation
Detoxification
Metabolism
Methylmercury
Moult
Journal
Chemosphere
ISSN: 1879-1298
Titre abrégé: Chemosphere
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0320657
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
Historique:
received:
31
05
2020
revised:
17
07
2020
accepted:
18
07
2020
pubmed:
23
8
2020
medline:
22
12
2020
entrez:
23
8
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Seabirds accumulate significant amounts of mercury (Hg) due to their long-life span together with their medium to high trophic position in marine food webs. Hg speciation and Hg isotopic analyses of total Hg in different tissues (pectoral muscles, liver, brain, kidneys, blood and feathers) were assessed to investigate their detoxification mechanisms. Three species with contrasted ecological characteristics were studied: the Antarctic prion (zooplankton feeder), the white-chinned petrel (pelagic generalist consumer) and the southern giant petrel (scavenger on seabirds and marine mammals). The difference of mass-dependent fractionation (MDF, δ
Identifiants
pubmed: 32828051
pii: S0045-6535(20)31972-X
doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127777
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Mercury Isotopes
0
Methylmercury Compounds
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Mercury
FXS1BY2PGL
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
127777Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.