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Retraction notice to "Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from marine gastropod egg capsules and egg
masses" [APJTB Volume 2 Issue 11 (2012) 916 - 922]
Kaviarasan T*, Siva Sankar R, Yogamoorthi A
Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University-605 014, Puducherry, India
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1H-imidazole in the egg masses of three muricid molluscs. Nat
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appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of
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the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a
very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers
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