doi: 10.1016/0048-9697(75)90052-2.
Mercury and selenium in marine mammals and birds
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Mercury and selenium in marine mammals and birds
Sci Total Environ.
1975 Jan.
Abstract
Information is provided concerning the concentrations of mercury and selenium in tissues of marine animals. In marine mammals a 1:1 Hg/Se molecular increment ratio was found and an almost perfect linear correlation between mercury and selenium. It is suggested that marine mammals are able to detoxify methylmercury by a specific chemical mechanism in which selenium is involved. The results also indicate that the fate of methylmercury in fish-eating marine birds differs fundamentally from that in marine mammals.
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