New approaches to investigate feeding and digestive system in herbivorous mammals

Zoologicheskii Zhurnal

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Naumova, E I ^a   Zharova, G K ^a   Nesterova, N G ^a  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

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