Use of tissue residues in reptile ecotoxicology: A call for integration and experimentalism

Toxicology of Reptiles

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 35-62

  Hopkins, William A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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