Detection and quantification of β-methylamino-L-alanine in aquatic invertebrates

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 10, Issue NOVEMBER, 2012, Pages 891-898

  Christensen, Stephanie J ^a   Hemscheidt, Thomas K ^b   Trapido Rosenthal, Henry ^a   Laws, Edward A ^c   Bidigare, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CYANOBACTERIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 84872822051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2012.10.891     Document Type: Article

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