Total mercury concentrations in edible tissues of two elasmobranch species from Crete (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Cybium

Volumn 30, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2006, Pages 119-123

  Kousteni, Vasiliki ^a   Megalofonou, Persefoni ^a   Dassenakis, Manos ^a   Stathopoulou, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crete; MED; Mercury concentration; Mustelus mustelus; Squalus acanthias

Indexed keywords

CHONDRICHTHYES; MUSTELUS CANIS CANIS; MUSTELUS MUSTELUS; SQUALIDAE; SQUALUS; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS;

EID: 34247214570     PISSN: 03990974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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