Measurement of fecal steroids in the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) using group-specific enzyme immunoassays for 20-oxo-pregnanes

Zoo Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-171

  Schwarzenberger, Franz ^a   Tomášová, Kristina ^b   Holečková, Dana ^b   Matern, Bernd ^b   Möstl, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b Vet Med Univ ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DICEROS; DICEROS BICORNIS; DICEROS BICORNIS MINOR; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 0040455236     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2361(1996)15:2<159::AID-ZOO6>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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