Thymidine and leucine incorporation into bacteria from soils experimentally contaminated with heavy metals

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 225-234

  Diaz Ravina M ^a,b   Baath E ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Leucine; Metals; Thymidine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001276385     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0929-1393(95)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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