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Heavy metal content in coral reef-associated fish collected from the central Red Sea, Saudi Arabia

By: Lafi Al Solami  
Open Access
|Jul 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26881/oandhs-2022.2.03 | Journal eISSN: 1897-3191 | Journal ISSN: 1730-413X
Language: English
Page range: 149 - 157
Submitted on: Sep 20, 2021
Accepted on: Feb 24, 2022
Published on: Jul 7, 2022
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