The role of the vomeronasal system in food preferences of the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica

Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Halpern, Mimi ^a   Daniels, Yasmine ^a   Zuri, Ido ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUIT; MEAT; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; VEGETABLE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 15244340549     PISSN: 17437075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-7075-2-6     Document Type: Article

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