Research Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2014
Volume: 9
Issue: 4
Page No. 129 - 134

Potential Effects of Agricultural Fungicide (Mancozeb) on Fish Clarias batrachus

Authors : Pallavi Srivastava and Ajay Singh

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