Heavy metals monitoring in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis from the apulian coast (Southern Italy)

Mediterranean Marine Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-108

  Spada, L ^a   Annicchiarico, C ^a   Cardellicchio, N ^a   Giandomenico, S ^a   Di Leo, A ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Health risk; Heavy metals; Mytilus galloprovincialis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878181915     PISSN: 1108393X     EISSN: 17916763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12681/mms.323     Document Type: Article

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