Is there a significant gas exchange through the skin of the shrew Crocidura russula monacha?

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 407-413

  Mover Lev, Haya ^a   Minzberg, Haya ^a   Ar, Amos ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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CROCIDURA RUSSULA;

EID: 0032125784     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515424     Document Type: Article

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