Reproductive Biology of the Male Sheath-Tailed Bat, Taphozous longimanus (Emballonuridae) from India

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 14-26

  Singh, Udai Pratap ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAT; CELL COUNT; CLIMATE; CYTOLOGY; EPIDIDYMIS; HISTOLOGY; INDIA; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE; SEASON; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHIROPTERA; CLIMATE; EPIDIDYMIS; INDIA; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; SEASONS; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0031086701     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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