Prolonged oviductal egg retention arrests embryonic growth at stage 34 in captive Calotes versicolor

Herpetological Review

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 217-218

  Radder, Rajkumar S ^a   Shanbhag, Bhagyashri A ^a   Saidapur, Srinivas K ^a  

^a KARNATAK UNIVERSITY   (India)

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