“…Heavy metal contamination has raised huge concerns about human health and the ecosystem in recent times. , Among various heavy metals, mercury is one of the most toxic pollutants in the biosphere. , Microbes transform inorganic mercury to organic mercury, especially to methyl mercury (CH 3 HgX), , which is a potential neurotoxin that passes through the food chain to the fish, marine mammals, land animals, and humans . Methylmercury intoxication in eukaryotes accounts for prenatal brain damage, vision and hearing loss, cognitive and motion disorders, and so forth. , Owing to the potential threat and severity of mercury toward biosystems, the Environmental Protection Agency has set a very low threshold limit for mercury species. , This instigates the requirement of sensitive, selective, and cost-effective sensing systems for on-site detection and quantitation of mercury species, particularly methylmercury. , Conventional analytical techniques such as high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP–MS), gas chromatography coupled with ICP–MS (GC–ICP–MS), , atomic absorption spectroscopy, neutron activation analysis, and X-ray fluorescence spectrophotometry are used for the detection of mercury ions. Notable shortcomings of these methods are the necessity of sophisticated instruments, the involvement of trained personnel, longer data acquisition time, and so forth.…”