Skin Biopsies as a Sensitive Non-Lethal Technique for the EcotoxicologicalStudies of Great White Shark(Carcharodon carcharias) Sampled in South Africa

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  2016

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• Publication date

  2016-12-05

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.4172/2325-9655.1000126
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