Nitrospina-like Bacteria Are Dominant Potential Mercury Methylators in Both the Oyashio and Kuroshio Regions of the Western North Pacific

• Published in: Microbiology Spectrum
• Main Authors: Tada, Yuya, Marumoto, Kohji, Takeuchi, Akinori
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021
• Subjects: Research Article; Oyashio; Pacific; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8557936/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34494859; https://doi.org/10.1128/Spectrum.00833-21

Highly neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) accumulates in marine organisms, thereby negatively affecting human and environmental health. Recent studies have revealed that oceanic prokaryotes harboring the hgcAB gene pair are involved in Hg methylation. Presently, little is known about the distribution a...