The toxicity of mercury and its chemical compounds: molecular mechanisms and environmental and human health implications: a comprehensive review

YS Wu, AI Osman, M Hosny, AM Elgarahy… - Acs Omega, 2024 - ACS Publications
Mercury is a type of hazardous and toxic pollutant that can result in detrimental effects on the
environment and human health. This review is aimed at discussing the state-of-the-art …

Mercury Biogeochemistry and Biomagnification in the Mediterranean Sea: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects in the Context of Climate Change

R Bargagli, E Rota - Coasts, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the 1970s, the discovery of much higher mercury (Hg) concentrations in Mediterranean
fish than in related species of the same size from the Atlantic Ocean raised serious concerns …

Assessing the diversity of plankton-associated prokaryotes along a size-fraction gradient: A methodological evaluation

L Cabrol, M Delleuze, A Szylit, G Schwob… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine free-living (FL) and plankton-associated prokaryotes (plankton-microbiota) are at the
basis of trophic webs and play crucial roles in the transfer and cycling of nutrients, organic …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling the anthropogenic Hg pollution fingerprint on the marine fishery production worldwide: A preliminary exposure assessment for people living in …

F De Simone, IM Hedgecock, DE Bruno… - Environment …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mercury is a toxic pollutant that poses risks for the human population, mainly by eating
contaminated fish. Mercury is released into the atmosphere from a variety of anthropogenic …

Mercury dynamics at the base of the pelagic food web of the Gulf of Gdańsk, southern Baltic Sea

A Jędruch, J Bełdowski, M Bełdowska - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Planktonic organisms, which have direct contact with water, serve as the entry point for
mercury (Hg), into the marine food web, impacting its levels in higher organisms, including …

Sources, chronology of deposition, and mobility of mercury and methylmercury in the sediments of a contaminated Mediterranean bay

D Cossa, DH Dang, J Knoery… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coastal sediments constitute a major reservoir for natural and anthropogenic mercury (Hg)
and can be used as geochronological records of past Hg deposition. They may also act as …

Temporal variation of mercury and methyl mercury in water and accumulation by phytoplankton in the eutrophic estuary, northern Taiwan

TH Fang, FW Chang - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Three surveys were carried out to study the phytoplankton role in influencing the Hg
distribution in a poorly eutrophic estuary by measuring the total Hg (THg) and methylHg …

Methylmercury exposure of the sponge O. lobularis induces strong tissue and cell defects

KDP Mendonca, C Rocher, A Dufour, Q Schenkelaars… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Mediterranean marine biota suffers from various anthropogenic threats. Among them,
pollutants such as mercury (Hg) represent important environmental issues that are …

Mercury Accumulation Pathways in a Model Marine Microalgae: Sorption, Uptake, and Partition Kinetics

I Garcia-Arevalo, JB Bérard, J Bieser… - ACS ES&T …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The accumulation of dissolved mercury (Hg) by phytoplankton is the largest concentration
step along aquatic food chains. However, the cell uptake mechanisms remain unclear. In …

Mercury mobility in epibenthic waters of a deltaic environment

D Cossa, DH Dang, B Thomas - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mercury (Hg) cycling at the sediment‐water interfaces (SWI) encompasses multiple
homogeneous and heterogeneous biogeochemical reactions whose result is not yet …