Soil bioassay using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1364, 1999, Pages 305-318

  Freeman, Mark N ^a   Peredney, Christopher L ^a   Williams, Phillip L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY;

COPPER CHLORIDE; SOIL TOXICITY TESTS;

BIOASSAY;

EID: 0033361958     PISSN: 10403094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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