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Acute toxicity of mercury, zinc, lead, cadmium, manganese to the chironomus sp

D. Subba Rao Department of Zoology, Madhav Science College, Ujjain, 456 010, India
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A. B. Saxena Department of Zoology, Madhav Science College, Ujjain, 456 010, India
Pages 225-226 | Received 16 Jan 1980, Published online: 24 Feb 2007

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