Characteristics of butyltin accumulation and its biomagnification in Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2043-2048

  Kim, Gi Beum ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a   Tatsukawa, Ryo ^a   Loughlin, Thomas R ^b   Shimazaki, Kenji ^c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age trend; Biomagnification; Butyltin; Steller sea lions; Temporal trend

Indexed keywords

BUTYLTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DRUG ACCUMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SEASHORE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALIA; EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0006968457     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1996)015<2043:COBAAI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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