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Mercury methylating microbial communities of boreal forest soils

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Molecular evidence for novel mercury methylating microorganisms in sulfate-impacted lakes

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Mechanisms of algal biomass input enhanced microbial Hg methylation in lake sediments

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Determining the Reliability of Measuring Mercury Cycling Gene Abundance with Correlations with Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations

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Quantification of Mercury Bioavailability for Methylation Using Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Samplers

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Geobacteraceae are important members of mercury-methylating microbial communities of sediments impacted by waste water releases

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(2018) Ri-Qing Yu et al.   ISME Journal

Formation of mercury methylation hotspots as a consequence of forestry operations

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Robust Mercury Methylation across Diverse Methanogenic Archaea

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Mercury transport and human exposure from global marine fisheries

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Microbial community structure with trends in methylation gene diversity and abundance in mercury-contaminated rice paddy soils in Guizhou, China

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Methanogens and iron-reducing bacteria: the overlooked members of mercury methylating microbial communities in boreal lakes

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Linking Microbial Activities and Low-Molecular-Weight Thiols to Hg Methylation in Biofilms and Periphyton from High-Altitude Tropical Lakes in the Bolivian Altiplano

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Microbial metal-sulfide oxidation in inactive hydrothermal vent chimneys suggested by metagenomic and metaproteomic analyses

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Unraveling Microbial Communities Associated with Methylmercury Production in Paddy Soils

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Microbial Mercury Methylation in Aquatic Environments: A Critical Review of Published Field and Laboratory Studies

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Biotically mediated mercury methylation in the soils and sediments of Nam Co Lake, Tibetan Plateau

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The toxicology of mercury: Current research and emerging trends

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Thermodynamic Modeling of the Solubility and Chemical Speciation of Mercury and Methylmercury Driven by Organic Thiols and Micromolar Sulfide Concentrations in Boreal Wetland Soils

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Mercury bioavailability, transformations, and effects on freshwater biofilms

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Molecular composition of organic matter controls methylmercury formation in boreal lakes

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Toward an Assessment of the Global Inventory of Present-Day Mercury Releases to Freshwater Environments

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Development and Validation of Broad-Range Qualitative and Clade-Specific Quantitative Molecular Probes for Assessing Mercury Methylation in the Environment

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Effects of Nutrient Loading and Mercury Chemical Speciation on the Formation and Degradation of Methylmercury in Estuarine Sediment

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Role of Settling Particles on Mercury Methylation in the Oxic Water Column of Freshwater Systems

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Mercury-methylating genes dsrB and hgcA in soils/sediments of the Three Gorges Reservoir

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A review on the distribution of Hg in the environment and its human health impacts

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Global Proteome Response to Deletion of Genes Related to Mercury Methylation and Dissimilatory Metal Reduction Reveals Changes in Respiratory Metabolism in Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA

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Spatial and temporal patterns of mercury concentrations in freshwater fish across the Western United States and Canada

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Mercury and methylmercury in aquatic sediment across western North America

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Mercury in Marine and Oceanic Waters—a Review

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Biogeochemical controls on methylmercury in soils and sediments: Implications for site management

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Microbial mercury methylation in Antarctic sea ice

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Site-Directed Mutagenesis of HgcA and HgcB Reveals Amino Acid Residues Important for Mercury Methylation

(2015) Steven D. Smith et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Contrasting Effects of Marine and Terrestrially Derived Dissolved Organic Matter on Mercury Speciation and Bioavailability in Seawater

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High Methylmercury in Arctic and Subarctic Ponds is Related to Nutrient Levels in the Warming Eastern Canadian Arctic

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Persistent Hg contamination and occurrence of Hg-methylating transcript (hgcA) downstream of a chlor-alkali plant in the Olt River (Romania)

(2015) Andrea G. Bravo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Relationships between bacterial energetic metabolism, mercury methylation potential, and hgcA/hgcB gene expression in Desulfovibrio dechloroacetivorans BerOc1

(2015) Marisol Goñi-Urriza et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Effect of Electron Donor to Sulfate Ratio on Mercury Methylation in Floodplain Sediments under Saturated Flow Conditions

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Special issue on mercury in Canada's North: Summary and recommendations for future research

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High methylmercury production under ferruginous conditions in sediments impacted by sewage treatment plant discharges

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Climate Change Impacts on Environmental and Human Exposure to Mercury in the Arctic

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Global prevalence and distribution of genes and microorganisms involved in mercury methylation

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Half a century of changing mercury levels in Swedish freshwater fish

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Syntrophs Dominate Sequences Associated with the Mercury Methylation-Related GenehgcAin the Water Conservation Areas of the Florida Everglades

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Analysis of the Microbial Community Structure by Monitoring an Hg Methylation Gene (hgcA) in Paddy Soils along an Hg Gradient

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The spatial structure of bacterial communities is influenced by historical environmental conditions

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Dissolved Organic Matter Kinetically Controls Mercury Bioavailability to Bacteria

(2014) Sophie A. Chiasson-Gould et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A global ocean inventory of anthropogenic mercury based on water column measurements

(2014) Carl H. Lamborg et al.   NATURE

Mercury cycling in agricultural and managed wetlands: A synthesis of methylmercury production, hydrologic export, and bioaccumulation from an integrated field study

(2014) Lisamarie Windham-Myers et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Differentiated availability of geochemical mercury pools controls methylmercury levels in estuarine sediment and biota

(2014) Sofi Jonsson et al.   Nature Communications

Mercury Methylation by the Methanogen Methanospirillum hungatei

(2013) Ri-Qing Yu et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

MMHg production and export from intertidal sediments to the water column of a tidal lagoon (Arcachon Bay, France)

(2013) S. Bouchet et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

An overview of mercury concentrations in freshwater fish species: a national fish mercury dataset for Canada

(2013) David C. Depew et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Towards Universal Wavelength-Specific Photodegradation Rate Constants for Methyl Mercury in Humic Waters, Exemplified by a Boreal Lake-Wetland Gradient

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Effect of Dissolved Organic Matter Source and Character on Microbial Hg Methylation in Hg–S–DOM Solutions

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Mechanisms Regulating Mercury Bioavailability for Methylating Microorganisms in the Aquatic Environment: A Critical Review

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Mercury Methylation by Novel Microorganisms from New Environments

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The effect of multiple primer–template mismatches on quantitative PCR accuracy and development of a multi-primer set assay for accurate quantification of pcrA gene sequence variants

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Methylmercury production below the mixed layer in the North Pacific Ocean

(2013) Joel D. Blum et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Genetic Basis for Bacterial Mercury Methylation

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Extremely elevated methyl mercury levels in water, sediment and organisms in a Romanian reservoir affected by release of mercury from a chlor-alkali plant

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Detection of a key Hg methylation gene,hgcA, in wetland soils

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Spatial and temporal variation of THg concentrations in run-off water from 19 boreal catchments, 2000–2010

(2012) Karin Eklöf et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Mercury biogeochemical cycling in the ocean and policy implications

(2012) Robert P. Mason et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Methylmercury Cycling in High Arctic Wetland Ponds: Controls on Sedimentary Production

(2012) Igor Lehnherr et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercury Methylation Rates for Geochemically Relevant HgII Species in Sediments

(2012) Sofi Jonsson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Methylmercury Production in Estuarine Sediments: Role of Organic Matter

(2012) Amina T. Schartup et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Eight Boreal Wetlands as Sources and Sinks for Methyl Mercury in Relation to Soil Acidity, C/N Ratio, and Small-Scale Flooding

(2012) Ida Tjerngren et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Dissolved Organic Matter Enhances Microbial Mercury Methylation Under Sulfidic Conditions

(2012) Andrew M. Graham et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercury methylation and demethylation in Hg-contaminated lagoon sediments (Marano and Grado Lagoon, Italy)

(2012) Mark E. Hines et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Sulfate-reducing Bacteria and Mercury Methylation in the Water Column of the Lake 658 of the Experimental Lake Area

(2012) Darío Achá et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Methanogens: Principal Methylators of Mercury in Lake Periphyton

(2011) Stéphanie Hamelin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Contribution of Coexisting Sulfate and Iron Reducing Bacteria to Methylmercury Production in Freshwater River Sediments

(2011) Ri-Qing Yu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The origin of methylmercury in open Mediterranean waters

(2011) Daniel Cossa et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Methylation of inorganic mercury in polar marine waters

(2011) Igor Lehnherr et al.   Nature Geoscience

Active transport, substrate specificity, and methylation of Hg(II) in anaerobic bacteria

(2011) J. K. Schaefer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency

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Mercury methylation in oxygen deficient zones of the oceans: No evidence for the predominance of anaerobes

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Overview of Mercury Methylation Capacities among Anaerobic Bacteria Including Representatives of the Sulphate-Reducers: Implications for Environmental Studies

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Mercury sources, distribution, and bioavailability in the North Pacific Ocean: Insights from data and models

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Competition among thiols and inorganic sulfides and polysulfides for Hg and MeHg in wetland soils and sediments under suboxic conditions: Illumination of controversies and implications for MeHg net production

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Organic matter and sulfide inhibit methylmercury production in sediments of New York/New Jersey Harbor

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Do Potential Methylation Rates Reflect Accumulated Methyl Mercury in Contaminated Sediments?

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