Fig. 1: Geographical distribution and mercury concentrations of study sites. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Geographical distribution and mercury concentrations of study sites.

From: Genomic potential for mercury biotransformation in marine sediments across marginal slope to hadal zone

Fig. 1

a Geographical distribution of the 15 stations in this study. The sediment samples from the five regions (South China Sea slope, South China Sea Basin, Bashi Channel, northern slope of the Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench) were used for this study. The metagenomic data for the sediment cores obtained from ten additional regions were downloaded from the NCBI database. b Depth distribution of the sediment samples. c Total mercury (THg) and methylmercury (MeHg) concentrations in samples. The error bars represent the standard error of the mean. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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