Accumulation of cadmium, copper, lead and zinc in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, collected from the Pearl River estuary, southern China

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 535-538

  Liu, W ^a   Deng, P Y ^b  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHINA; ESTUARY; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; SAMPLING; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CHINA; COPPER; LEAD; OSTREIDAE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

CRASSOSTREA GIGAS;

EID: 34548034449     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-007-9083-0     Document Type: Article

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