Ecotoxicity testing with nematodes

Nematodes as Environmental Indicators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 208-224

  Höss, Sebastian ^a   Williams, Phillip L ^b  

^a Ecossa   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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