Autoradiographic study on the distribution of 241Am in the shell of the freshwater zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 167, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 173-178

  Zuykov, Michael ^a,b   Pelletier, Emilien ^a   Rouleau, Claude ^c   Popov, Leonid ^d   Fowler, Scott W ^e   Orlova, Marina ^f  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b KHLOPIN RADIUM INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

241Am; Autoradiography; Bioaccumulation; Biosorption; Laboratory radiotracer experiments; Mussel shell analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949874169     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-009-0239-y     Document Type: Article

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