Elevated lead levels in farmed American alligators Alligator mississippiensis consuming nutria Myocastor coypus meat contaminated by lead bullets

Journal of the World Aquaculture Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 370-376

  Camus, Alvin C ^a   Mitchell, Mark M ^a   Williams, Jamie F ^a   Jowett, Peter L H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; MYOCASTOR COYPUS;

EID: 0032331775     PISSN: 08938849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-7345.1998.tb00661.x     Document Type: Article

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