Morphological deformities occurring in Belarusian chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) subsequent to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 503-512

  Dudley Williams, D ^a,b   Nesterovitch, Andrei I ^a,b   Tavares, Annette F ^a,b   Muzzatti, Ernest G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION;

BELARUS;

EID: 0035030505     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2001.00699.x     Document Type: Article

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