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Ecological effects, transport, and fate of mercury: a general review.

Dean W. Boening
- 01 Jun 2000 - 
- Vol. 40, Iss: 12, pp 1335-1351
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The organic forms of mercury are generally more toxic to aquatic organisms and birds than the inorganic forms, and the form of retained mercury in birds is more variable and depends on species, target organ and geographical site.
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This article is published in Chemosphere.The article was published on 2000-06-01. It has received 1730 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mercury (element) & Mercury in fish.

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Tools and tactics for the optical detection of mercuric ion.

TL;DR: The Hg(II) Detector simplifies the experimental setup by enabling a single amplifier to be switched between the Oligonucleotide-Based and DNAzyme-Based detectors.
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Luminescent chemodosimeters for bioimaging.

TL;DR: Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID) and Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210046, P. R. China.
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Mercury in the Aquatic Environment: A Review of Factors Affecting Methylation

TL;DR: The current state of knowledge on the physicochemical behavior of mercury in the aquatic environment, and in particular the environmental factors influencing its transformation into highly toxic methylated forms is examined in this paper.
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Colorimetric Detection of Mercuric Ion (Hg2+) in Aqueous Media using DNA-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

TL;DR: A highly selective and sensitive colorimetric detection method for Hg that relies on thymidine–Hg–thymidine coordination chemistry and complementary DNA–Au NPs with deliberately designed T–T mismatches is presented.
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Fluoro- and Chromogenic Chemodosimeters for Heavy Metal Ion Detection in Solution and Biospecimens

TL;DR: Duong Tuan Quang was born in 1970 in Thanhhoa, Vietnam, and graduated from Hue University in 1992, where he obtained his M.S. degree in Chemistry and went to Korea University as a research professor in 2010, where his main task involved the development of chromogenic and fluorogenic molecular sensors to detect specific cations and anions.
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Mercury and selenium in marine mammals and birds.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the fate of methylmercury in fish-eating marine birds differs fundamentally from that in marine mammals, and it is suggested that marine mammals are able to detoxify methylcury by a specific chemical mechanism in which selenium is involved.
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Mercury cycling and effects in freshwater wetland ecosystems

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review borrows from diverse fields because of the paucity of freshwater wetland studies on mercury cycling and effects, suggests that a biogeochemical model would prove useful for evaluating wetland processes of mercury transformation and accumulation.
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Organochlorine pesticide, polychlorobiphenyl, and mercury residues in bald eagle eggs--1969-79--and their relationships to shell thinning and reproduction.

TL;DR: Bald eagle eggs were collected in 14 States in 1969–79 and analyzed for organochlorine pesticides, polychlorobiphenyls, and mercury; eight contaminants were significantly negatively correlated with shell thickness or reproduction at sampled breeding areas; DDE was most closely related to these factors.
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