Lactational energetics of a marsupial carnivore, the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus)

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-306

  Green, Brian ^a   Merchant, Jim ^a   Newgrain, Keith ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DASYURUS; DASYURUS VIVERRINUS; METATHERIA;

EID: 0030768251     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO97003     Document Type: Article

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