Discovery of imposex in the gastropod Cyclope neritea now invading Galicia (north-west Spain)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1171-1173

  Quintela, María ^a   Couceiro, Lucía ^a   Ruiz, José Miguel ^a   Barreiro, Rodolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; FIELD SURVEY; GASTROPOD; IMPOSEX; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRIBUTYLTIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CYCLOPE NERITEA; GASTROPODA; NASSARIUS RETICULATUS;

EID: 33748148172     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315406014159     Document Type: Review

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