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  <dc:creator>Gary Heinz</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2016</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Retrospective essay for the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br data-mce-bogus="1"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;As I look back on my paper, “Effects of Low Dietary Levels of Methyl Mercury on Mallard Reproduction,” published in 1974 in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, a thought sticks in my mind. I realize just how much my mercury research was not unlike a leaf in a stream, carried this way and that, sometimes stalled in an eddy, restarted, and carried downstream at a pace and path that was not completely under my control. I was hired in 1969 by the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center to study the effects of environmental pollutants on the behavior of wildlife. A colleague was conducting a study on the reproductive effects of methylmercury on mallards (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i class="EmphasisTypeItalic "&gt;Anas platyrhynchos&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;), and he offered to give me some of the ducklings. I conducted a pilot study, testing how readily ducklings approached a tape-recorded maternal call. Sample sizes were small, but the results suggested that ducklings from mercury-treated parents behaved differently than controls. That’s how I got into mercury research—pretty much by chance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1007/s00128-016-1909-1</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Springer</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>A downstream voyage with mercury</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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