Determinants of the postfeeding metabolic response of Burmese pythons, Python molurus

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 202-212

  Secor, Stephen M ^a   Diamond, Jared ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

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PYTHON MOLURUS;

EID: 0031106218     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/639578     Document Type: Article

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