Lack of a response of the sub-tropical rodent (Saccostomus campestris) to a secondary plant compound, 6-methoxybenzoxazolinone - Consequences for reproductive strategy

African Zoology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 108-113

  White, Rehema M ^a   Bernard, Richard T F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRANSKEI   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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