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  • Title: Retention and distribution of methylmercury administered in the food in marine invertebrates: Effect of dietary selenium.
    Author: Bjerregaard P, St John T, Biuki NA, Biserova MP, Christensen A, Pedersen KL.
    Journal: Mar Environ Res; 2018 Jul; 138():76-83. PubMed ID: 29706366.
    Abstract:
    Methylmercury is transported along aquatic food chains from the lower trophic levels and selenium modulates the biokinetics of mercury in organisms in complex ways. We investigated the retention of orally administered methylmercury in various marine invertebrates and the effect of selenium hereon. Shrimps (Palaemon adpersus and P. elegans), blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) and sea stars (Asterias rubens) eliminated methylmercury slowly (t½ = ½ to >1 year) and the copepod (Acartia tonsa) faster (t½ ∼ 12-24 h). Orally administered selenite augmented elimination of methylmercury in the copepod (in one of two experiments) and blue mussels, but not in shrimps, crabs and sea stars. Selenium generally alters the distribution of the body burden of mercury, leaving more mercury in muscle and less mercury in digestive glands or rest of the body - also in the species where total body retention is not affected.
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