Distribution of heavy metals and their age-related changes in the eastern great white egret, Egretta alba modesta, in Korea
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...Feathers are widely recognized as major excretory pathways for Hg, allowing adult birds to sequester 70 to 93% of their Hg body burden [45–48]....
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...Honda et al. (1986) found that young great egrets (Egretta alba) sequester a lower percentage of their body burden in feathers than adults do. Additionally, Burger and Gochfeld (1992) found significantly lower levels of lead and mercury in partially formed feathers than in fully grown feathers....
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...Both processes increase the activity of cytochrome oxidase, which is known to be a cuproenzyme ( Frieden 1968 )....
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