A high incidence of imposex in Pomacea apple snails in Taiwan: A decade after triphenyltin was banned

Zoological Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-93

  Wu, Jing Ying ^a   Meng, Pei Jie ^b,c   Liu, Ming Yie ^d   Chiu, Yuh Wen ^e   Liu, Li Lian ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MARINE BIOLOGY AND AQUARIUM   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Imposex; Pomacea canaliculata; Pomacea scalaris; TPT; VDS

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; POMACEA; POMACEA CANALICULATA;

EID: 80051593692     PISSN: 10215506     EISSN: 1810522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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