Detection of localized methylmercury contamination by use of the mussel adductor muscle in Minamata Bay and Kagoshima Bay, Japan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 261, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 75-89

  Haraguchi, Koichi ^a   Ando, Tetsuo ^b   Sato, Masanori ^c   Kawaguchi, Chikako ^c   Tomiyasu, Takashi ^c   Horvat, Milena ^d   Akagi, Hirokatsu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Adductor muscle; Biological indicator; Coastal areas; Mercury pollution; Methylmercury; Mussel; Total mercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; METHYLMERCURY;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; FALLOUT; JAPAN; MUSCLE TISSUE; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JAPAN; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MUSCLES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

JAPAN;

EID: 0034676114     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00626-4     Document Type: Article

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