A maintenance and handing device for cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus)

Lab Animal

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 32-33

  Niewiesk, Stefan ^a,b   Voelp, Franz ^a   Ter Meulen, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

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