A simple model for estimating the age of Morelet's crocodile embryos

Herpetological Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-122

  Platt, Steven G ^a,c   Rainwater, Thomas R ^b   McMurry, Scott T ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037489492     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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