Husbandly and Management of the Degu (Octodon degus)

Lab Animal

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 54-57

  Najecki, Debra L ^a   Tate, Barbara A ^a  

^a MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

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