Transcutaneous Amphibian Stimulator (TAS): A device for the collection of amphibian skin secretions

Herpetological Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 38-41

  Grant, Jacqualine B ^a   Land, Bruce ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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