The brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) as a laboratory animal

Lab Animal

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 28-31

  Greene, Michael J ^a   Nichols, Donald K ^c   Hoyt Jr , Robert F ^b   Mason, Robert T ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

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