Yellow-necked mice (Apodemus flavicollis) and bank voles (Myodes glareolus) as zoomonitors of environmental contamination at a polluted area in Slovakia

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Martiniaková, Monika ^a   Omelka, Radoslav ^a   Grosskopf, Birgit ^b   Jančová, Alena ^a  

^a Constantine the Philosopher University ^*  (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; MUS; RODENTIA;

HEAVY METAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; CHEMISTRY; FEMUR; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; METABOLISM; MURINAE; POLLUTANT; SLOVAKIA;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMUR; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MURINAE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 78049373062     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-52-58     Document Type: Article

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