Assessment of bioavailability and contamination by Cd in the tropical intertidal area, using different soft tissues of Telescopium telescopium: statistical multivariate analyses

• Main Authors: Yap, Chee Kong, Arifin, Noorhaidah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Terengganu Publisher 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/25018/1/Assessment%20of%20bioavailability%20and%20contamination%20by%20Cd%20in%20the%20tropical%20intertidal%20area.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/25018/; http://jssm.umt.edu.my/?page_id=132
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

The mudflat snails Telescopium telescopium were collected from 18 geographical sampling sites in the intertidal area of Peninsular Malaysia. In this paper, the concentrations of Cd were determined in seven different soft tissues of the snails, namely foot, cephalic tentacles, mantle, muscle, gill, d...