Cataracts and Reduced Fertility in Degus (Octodon degus)

Lab Animal

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 25-26

  Brown, Cynthia ^a   Donnelly, Thomas M ^a  

^a Kenneth S Warren Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATARACT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; INFERTILITY; MALE; RODENT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATARACT; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INFERTILITY; MALE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0345820084     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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