Cold tolerance in hatchling painted turtles (Chrysemys picta): Supercooling or tolerance for freezing?

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 670-678

  Packard, Gary C ^a   Lang, Jeffrey W ^b   Lohmiller, Leslie D ^a   Packard, Mary J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRYSEMYS PICTA;

EID: 0031282411     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515875     Document Type: Article

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