Fecal analysis as an indicator of post-hibernation shifts in the gut microflora of the thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tricecemlineatus)

Texas Journal of Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-172

  Blossman Myer, Bonnie L ^a   Stangl Jr , Frederick B ^a  

^a MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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