Blood sampling techniques for hatchling cheloniid sea turtles

Herpetological Review

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 218-220

  Wibbels, Thane ^a   Hanson, Joanne ^a   Balazs, George ^b   Hillis Starr, Zandy Marie ^c   Phillips, Brendalee ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c Buck Island Reef National Monument   (Virgin Islands (U.S.))

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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