Temperature changes during pregnancy in the subterranean naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) ; the role of altered body composition and basking behaviour

Mammalia

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 619-628

  Buffenstein, R ^a   Urison, N T ^a   Woodley, R ^a   Van Der Westhuizen, L A ^a   Jarvis, Jum ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER;

EID: 0030425113     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mamm.1996.60.4.619     Document Type: Article

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