Reposted by Oscar Vedder
A few days after successfully defending my PhD, another chapter of my thesis is out in Environmental Toxicology!🥳
Here, we show that bird embryos actively mobilize Hg from eggshells, key for better understanding Hg impact on wildlife.
More information can be found here👇
doi.org/10.1002/tox....
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Experimental Evidence for Mobilization of Mercury From the Eggshell by the Developing Embryo in an Avian Model Organism
Of the many pollutants wildlife is exposed to, mercury ranks among the most toxic. In birds, mercury does not only accumulate within generations, but also is transferred across generations via matern...
