Condition and immune traits of frogs from ontario baitshops: Risks of practice not ameliorated by sale of healthy frogs

Herpetological Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-133

  Rutherford, Pamela L ^a   McRuer, David L ^a   Forbes, Mark R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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