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  • Title: Mercury and selenium in marine mammals and birds.
    Author: Koeman JH, van de Ven WS, de Goeij JJ, Tjioe PS, van Haaften JL.
    Journal: Sci Total Environ; 1975 Jan; 3(3):279-87. PubMed ID: 1111092.
    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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