Growth rate and maturation of skeletal muscles over a size range of galliform birds

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 502-510

  Dietz, Maurine W ^a,b   Ricklefs, Robert E ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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EID: 0031238515     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515859     Document Type: Article

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