The thermal biology of southern Africa's smallest rodent, Mus minutoides

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 282-284

  Downs, C T ^a   Perrin, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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