Relative concentrations of four heavy metals in the parasites Protospirura muricola (Nematoda) and Inermicapsifer arvicanthidis (Cestoda) in their definitive host silvery mole-rat (Heliophobius argenteocinereus: Rodentia)

Helminthologia

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 227-232

  Barus V ^a   Tenora, F ^b   Sumbera R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atomic absorption spectrometry; Cadmium; Copper; Heliophobius; Inermicapsifer arvicanthidis; Lead; Protospirura muricola; Subterranean rodent; Zinc

Indexed keywords

AVES; CESTODA; HELIOPHOBIUS; HELIOPHOBIUS ARGENTEOCINEREUS; NEMATODA; PISCES; RODENTIA;

EID: 1642349606     PISSN: 04406605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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