Effect of Temperature and Storage Duration on the Stability of Steroid Hormones in Blood Samples from Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 14-17

  Taylor, Emily N ^a   Schuett, Gordon W ^b,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Zoo Atlanta ^*  (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS; CROTALUS ATROX; SERPENTES;

EID: 1442315634     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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