Organotins in Aquatic Biota: Occurrence in Tissue and Toxicological Significance

Environmental Contaminants in Biota: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 255-286

  Meador, James P ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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