“…For more detail, see sections Transcript‐specific effects and Tissue‐specific effects , respectively. Furthermore, 13 different bivalve species were represented in the data set: Dreissena polymorpha (27%, n = 108; Hanana et al, 2017, 2018; Louis et al, 2021; Navarro et al, 2011), Crassostrea gigas (20%, n = 81; Choi et al, 2008; Cong et al, 2012, 2013; Jo et al, 2008; Metzger et al, 2012), Cerastoderma glaucum (20%, n = 80; Karray et al, 2015), Mytilus galloprovincialis (8.6%, n = 34; Jimeno‐Romero et al, 2017; Piscopo et al, 2016; Rocha et al, 2018), Anodonta anatina (6.1%, n = 24; Ekelund Ugge et al, 2020), Geloina coaxans (6.1%, n = 24; Guo et al, 2020), Ruditapes philippinarum (4.0%, n =16; Chen et al, 2018), Crassostrea virginica (2.5%, n = 10; Götze et al, 2014; Lebordais et al, 2021), Mytilus edulis (1.8%, n = 7; Poynton et al, 2014), Mercenaria mercenaria (1.0%, n = 4; Götze et al, 2014), Meretrix meretrix (1.0%, n = 4; Gao et al, 2021), Mactra chinensis (0.76%, n = 3; Zhang et al, 2016), and Cerastoderma edule (0.25%, n = 1; Desclaux‐Marchand et al, 2007). Finally, Cd was the most common metal exposure (53%, n = 210, k = 14), followed by Cu (14%, n = 55, k = 5), Cr(VI) (6.1%, n = 24, k = 1), Hg (5.1%, n = 20, k = 1), Gd (4.0%, n = 16, k = 1), Sm (4.0%, n = 16, k = 1), As(V) (3.5%, n = 14, k = 2), Y (3.0%, n =12, k =1), Ag (2.0%, n = 8, k = 1), As(III) (2.0%, n = 8, k = 1), Ni (1.5%, n = 6, k = 1), Pb (1.0%, n = 4, k = 1), and Zn (0.76%, n = 3, k = 1).…”