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Lipid biomarkers profile—presence of coprostanol: recent sediments from Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon—Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Pages 1553-1560 | Received 08 Mar 2007, Published online: 19 Oct 2007

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