Effects of Bt-maize material on the life cycle of the land snail Cantareus aspersus

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 236-242

  Kramarz, Paulina ^a,b   de Vaufleury, Annette ^a   Gimbert, Frédéric ^a   Cortet, Jerome ^c   Tabone, Elisabeth ^d   Andersen, Mathias Neumann ^e   Krogh, Paul Henning ^f  

^a Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c LABORATOIRE SOLS ET ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Genetically modified crops; Helix aspersa; Long term experiment; MON 810; Snail

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CANTAREUS ASPERSA; GASTROPODA; HELIX ASPERSA; HEXAPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67649338411     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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