ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2024
Microorganisms Involved in Methylmercury Demethylation and Mercury Reduction are Widely Distributed and Active in the Bathypelagic Deep Ocean Waters.
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- Particle-associated diazotrophs drive nitrogen fixation in Arctic subsurface waters of the Barents Sea.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Nanomineral-fueled chemolithoautotrophy leads to substantial mercury emission.National science review · 2026Article
- Deciphering microbial approaches for heavy metal removal: an overview on their mechanisms, innovations and future horizons.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Genomic potential for mercury biotransformation in marine sediments across marginal slope to hadal zone.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The influence of depth on the global deep-sea plasmidome.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Distribution and function of prokaryotes involved in mercury methylation, demethylation, and reduction in the western North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The ocean's mercury (Hg) content has tripled due to anthropogenic activities, and although the dark ocean (>200 m) has become an important Hg reservoir, concentrations of the toxic and bioaccumulative methylmercury (MeHg) are low and therefore very difficult to measure. As a consequence, the current understanding of the Hg cycle in the deep ocean is severely data-limited, and the factors controlling MeHg, as well as its transformation rates, remain largely unknown. By analyzing 52 globally distributed bathypelagic deep-ocean metagenomes and 26 new metatranscriptomes from the Malaspina Expedition, our study reveals the widespread distribution and expression of bacterial-coding genes
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