A 4 year follow-up analysis of genotoxic damage in birds of the Doñana area (south west Spain) in the wake of the 1998 mining waste spill

Mutagenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-65

  Pastor, Nuria ^a   Baos, Raquel ^b   López Lázaro, Miguel ^a   Jovani, Roger ^b   Tella, José L ^b   Hajji, Nabil ^a   Hiraldo, Fernando ^b   Cortés, Felipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC TOXICOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MALE; MINING; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; SPILLAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WILDLIFE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMET ASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; CICONIA; CICONIA CICONIA; CICONIIFORMES; MILVUS; MILVUS MIGRANS;

EID: 0347093493     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geg035     Document Type: Article

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