Feminizing turtle embryos as a conservation tool

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 353-362

  Girondot, Marc ^a   Fouillet, Hélène ^b   Pieau, Claude ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE; SEX DETERMINATION; TURTLE;

EMYS ORBICULARIS;

EID: 0031898690     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.96382.x     Document Type: Article

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