Dissolved organic matter enhances microbial mercury methylation under sulfidic conditions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2715-2723

  Graham, Andrew M ^a   Aiken, George R ^b   Gilmour, Cynthia C ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SEDIMENTS; AQUATIC SYSTEM; CELL ASSAYS; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; FREE METAL ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBIC ACIDS; L-CYSTEINE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MERCURY METHYLATION; METAL BIOAVAILABILITY; METAL SPECIES; METHYLMERCURY; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SUWANNEE RIVER HUMIC ACID; WETLAND SOILS; WILLIAMS;

ALKYLATION; AMINO ACIDS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; METHYLATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HUMIC ACID; MERCURY CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY; SULFIDE;

AGGREGATION; BACTERIUM; BIOAVAILABILITY; CORRELATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HUMIC ACID; LABORATORY METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFURIC ACID;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CELL ASSAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHASE PARTITIONING;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LAKES; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; SOLUBILITY; SULFIDES;

SUWANNEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS;

EID: 84857839607     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203658f     Document Type: Article

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