The morphology and size of blood cells of some viperid snakes from Turkey

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 465-470

  Arikan, Hüseyin ^a   Kumlutaş, Yusuf ^b   Türkozan, Oǧuz ^c   Baran, Ibrahim ^b   Ilgaz, Çetin ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; SNAKE;

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; SERPENTES;

EID: 12944287760     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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