Imposex as an indicator of organotin pollution at Rio de Janeiro south coast: Sepetiba and Ilha grande bays

Thalassas

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-30

  Quadros, Juliana P ^a   Camillo Jr , Edmundo ^a   Pinheiro, Fernanda ^b   Fernandez, Marcos A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Imposex; Organotin compounds (OTC); Rio de Janeiro south coast; Stramonita haemastoma

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; STRAMONITA HAEMASTOMA;

EID: 70350370726     PISSN: 02125919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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