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Methylmercury manufacture

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The neurotoxin methylmercury can accumulate in marine food webs, contaminating seafood. An analysis of the isotopic composition of fish in the North Pacific suggests that much of the mercury that enters the marine food web originates from low-oxygen subsurface waters.

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Figure 1: Methylmercury (MeHg) and global warming.

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  1. Daniel Cossa is at the Institute of Earth Science, Université J. Fourier, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble, France, and at the French Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea, Mediterranean Center, F-83507 La Seyne-sur-Mer, France,

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Cossa, D. Methylmercury manufacture. Nature Geosci 6, 810–811 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1967

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