Follicle growth during hibernation in the frog Rana ridibunda in Northern Greece

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-285

  Loumbourdis, Nikos ^a   Kyriakopoulou Sklavounou, Pasqualina ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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