| mercury concentrations in tissues of colombian slider turtles, trachemys callirostris, from northern colombia. | this study determined the total mercury (thg) concentrations in pectoral muscle, blood and carapace tissue in turtles collected from magangué and lorica, colombia. thg concentrations in μg/g (wet weight) were 0.39 ± 0.16 in muscle, 0.15 ± 0.08 in carapace and 0.07 ± 0.03 in blood for turtles from the magdalena river and 0.25 ± 0.18 in muscle, 0.14 ± 0.09 in carapace and 0.06 ± 0.04 in blood for turtles from the sinú river. twenty-nine and ten percent of turtle muscle samples from magangué and lo ... | 2014 | 24458244 |