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Mercury Altering Gene Expression
Via The University of Geneva (August 15, 2017)

[caption id="attachment_11544" align="alignleft" width="300"] Green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a model system for molecular biology and environmental studies. © Dartmouth College Electron Microscope Facility, Louisa Howard[/caption]

The mercury found at very low concentrations in water is concentrated along the entire food chain, from algae via zooplankton to small fish and on to the largest fish — the ones we eat. Mercury...
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