Genotoxicity in herring gulls (Larus argentatus) in Sweden and Iceland

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 702, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-31

  Skarphedinsdottir, Halldora ^a   Hallgrimsson, Gunnar Thor ^b   Hansson, Tomas ^a   Hägerroth, Per Åke ^a   Liewenborg, Birgitta ^a   Tjärnlund, Ulla ^a   Åkerman, Gun ^a   Baršiene, Janina ^c   Balk, Lennart ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

32P postlabelling; Baltic Sea; DNA adducts; Iceland; Larus argentatus; Micronuclei; Pulli; Sweden

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA ADDUCT; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; EXPOSURE; GENOTOXICITY; ICELAND; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHARADRIIFORMES; DNA ADDUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ERYTHROCYTES; FISHES; ICELAND; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; SWEDEN;

AVES; LARUS ARGENTATUS;

EID: 77956433600     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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