ArticleEcoHealth2012
Selenium:mercury molar ratios in freshwater fish from Tennessee: individual, species, and geographical variations have implications for management.
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- Exploring the Complexities of Seafood: From Benefits to Contaminants.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Concentration of metals and metalloids in livers of birds of various foraging guilds collected during the autumn migration period in Poland.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Article
- A critical analysis of sources, pollution, and remediation of selenium, an emerging contaminant.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2023Review
- Hg and Se composition in demersal deep-sea fish from the North-East Atlantic.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- Brains of Native and Alien Mesocarnivores in Biomonitoring of Toxic Metals in Europe.PloS one · 2016Article
- Selenium and mercury molar ratios in commercial fish from New Jersey and Illinois: variation within species and relevance to risk communication.Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association · 2013Article
- Contrasting food web factor and body size relationships with Hg and Se concentrations in marine biota.PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
Vertebrates, including humans, can experience adverse effects from mercury consumed in fish. Humans often prefer large predatory fish that bioaccumulate high mercury levels. Recent attention has focused on the role of selenium countering mercury toxicity, but there is little research on the selenium:mercury molar ratios in freshwater fish. We examine selenium:mercury molar ratios in freshwater fish from Tennessee at Poplar Creek which receives ongoing inputs of mercury from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Y-12 facility. Our objective was to determine variation of the ratios within species that might affect the protectiveness of selenium against mercury toxicity. Within species, the ratio was correlated significantly and positively with fish length only for two species. There was great individual variation in the selenium:mercury molar ratio within each species, except striped bass. The lack of a clear relationship between the selenium:mercury molar ratio and fish length, and the intraspecific variation, suggests that it would be difficult to use the molar ratio in predicting either the risk from mercury toxicity or in devising consumption advisories.
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