Selenium toxicity: cause and effects in aquatic birds.

@article{Spallholz2002SeleniumTC,
  title={Selenium toxicity: cause and effects in aquatic birds.},
  author={Julian E. Spallholz and David J. Hoffman},
  journal={Aquatic toxicology},
  year={2002},
  volume={57 1-2},
  pages={
          27-37
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:28251689}
}
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