The use of the stickleback as a sentinel and model species in ecotoxicology

Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 319-351

  Katsiadaki, Ioanna ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

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