Endocrine Disrupting Organotin Compounds are Potent Inducers of Imposex in Gastropods and Adipogenesis in Vertebrates
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Iguchi, Taisen
(Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, and Department of Basic Biology, Faculty of Life Science, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Katsu, Yoshinao (Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, and Department of Basic Biology, Faculty of Life Science, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies) Horiguchi, Toshihiro (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Science and Technology Corporation) Watanabe, Hajime (Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, and Department of Basic Biology, Faculty of Life Science, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies) Blumberg, Bruce (Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine) Ohta, Yasuhiko (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Science and Technology Corporation) |
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