Mercury concentrations in tissues of blue swimming crab portunus pelagicus and sediments from Khark Island

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1391-1397

  Khoei, Javad Kazemzadeh ^a   Bastami, Afshin Abdi ^b  

^a BAKU STATE UNIVERSITY   (Azerbaijan)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Concentrations; Mercury; Persian Gulf; Portunus pelagicus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875025322     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.21.9.1315     Document Type: Article

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