Nutritional and mercury content of milk of the Amazon river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-119

  Rosas, Fernando C W ^a,b   Lehti, Kesä K ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon river dolphin; biochemistry; Inia geoffrensis; mercury; milk; minerals; nutrition; pollution; vitamin A

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; COPPER; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MERCURY; POTASSIUM; RETINOL; SODIUM; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

INIA GEOFFRENSIS;

EID: 0030270015     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(96)00021-7     Document Type: Article

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