* National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
? Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
Abstract:
In Japan, marine pollution by organotin compounds is serious and imposex is known to occur in marine gastropods. However, a detailed survey on imposex had not previously been conducted. The first country-wide survey and laboratory experiments on imposex in Japanese gastropods has now been carried out, and the results are reported herein.