Comet assay used to detect genotoxic effects of mining sediments in western toad tadpoles (Bufo boreas)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 152-155

  Tverdy, Lindsay M ^a   Meis, Naomi J ^a   Wicher, Christopher G ^a   Hokit, D Grant ^a  

^a CARROLL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; BUFO BOREAS;

EID: 21844442360     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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