Ciliates as cellular tools to study the eukaryotic cell: Heavy metal interactions

Heavy Metal Pollution

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-44

  Gutiérrez, Juan C ^a   Martin Gonzalez A ^a   Diaz S ^a   Amaro, F ^a   Ortega, R ^a   Gallego, A ^a   de Lucas, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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