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Abstract
We found no relationship between fish growth rate and mercury concentration in a lake trout population and conditional support for an inverse relationship in a smallmouth bass population. A bioenergetics model indicated that mercury concentration was more responsive to dietary mercury intake than to growth rate. When biodilution is evident, it may bias contaminant versus fish size relationships.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11521841
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Environ Toxicol Chem ISSN: 0730-7268 Impact factor: 3.742