Total mercury contamination in fish species of Northwestern Ecuador and potential human health risks

• Gabriela S. Yánez-Jácome ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela S. Yánez-Jácome, Andrés Merino-Viteri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gsyanez@puce.edu.ec (GSY-J); armerino@puce.edu.ec (AM-V)

  Affiliation Centro de Estudios Aplicados en Química (CESAQ), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0361-2729

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• Andrés Merino-Viteri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela S. Yánez-Jácome, Andrés Merino-Viteri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gsyanez@puce.edu.ec (GSY-J); armerino@puce.edu.ec (AM-V)

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecofisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Ambientales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1039-2645

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• Eduardo Rebolledo Monsalve,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Gestión Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Sede Esmeraldas, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2596-0636

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• Roberto Xavier Supe Tulcan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1333-7847

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• Laurence Maurice,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation OMP-GET laboratory, Univesité de Toulouse-IRD-CNRS-CNES, Toulouse, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3482-3892

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• Hugo Navarrete

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations Centro de Estudios Aplicados en Química (CESAQ), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Ambientales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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