Trace metals in the marine bivalve Macoma balthica in the Westerschelde estuary, The Netherlands. Part 3: Variability of the role of cytosol in metal uptake by the clams

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-255

  Bordin, Guy ^a   McCourt, Josephine ^a   Raposo, Fernando Cordeiro ^a   Rodriguez, Adela ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

bivalves; cytosol; Macoma balthica; metal accumulation; season; trace metals; Westerschelde estuary

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MACOMA BALTHICA; BIVALVIA; TELLINIDAE;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CYTOSOL; METAL UPTAKE; TRACE METALS;

NETHERLANDS, WESTERSCHELDE ESTUARY;

EID: 0029667839     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(95)04942-8     Document Type: Article

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