Is the digestive tract an important access route for mercury in the Chinese crab Eriocheir sinensis (Crustacea, Decapoda)?

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 412-417

  Bianchini, A ^a   Gilles, R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MERCURY; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CRAB; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEAVY METAL POISONING; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADSORPTION; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; MERCURY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ERIOCHEIR SINENSIS;

EID: 0034065905     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001280000016     Document Type: Article

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