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Editorial: The Unknown Environmental Tragedy in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan

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  1. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-2258, USA

    John W. Bickham & Cole W. Matson

  2. Sumgayit Centre for Environmental Rehabilitation, 16 Nizami St., Sumgayit, 373200, Azerbaijan

    Arif Islamzadeh

  3. Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, P.O. Box 1675, Galveston, TX, 77553, USA

    Gilbert T. Rowe

  4. Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-4458, USA

    K.C. Donnelly

  5. Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA

    Carol D. Swartz

  6. Department of Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, 79601, USA

    William J. Rogers

  7. Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA

    Jeffrey K. Wickliffe

  8. Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-3136, USA

    Robin L. Autenrieth

  9. School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, University Park Plaza, College Station, TX, 77802-1266, USA

    Thomas J. McDonald

  10. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, 3 Gubkin St., GSP-1, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    Dmitri Politov

  11. Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Republic, Karaev Institute of Physiology, 307100, Baku, Sharifezade 2, Azerbaijan

    Grigoriy Palatnikov, Arif A. Mekhtiev & Rafik Kasimov

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Bickham, J.W., Matson, C.W., Islamzadeh, A. et al. Editorial: The Unknown Environmental Tragedy in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan. Ecotoxicology 12, 505–508 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ECTX.0000003037.55253.c5

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