Is the eye lens method of age estimation reliable in voles?

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-125

  Jánová, Eva ^a   Nesvadbová, Jiřina ^a   Tkadlec, Emil ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Age; Calibration; Eye lens mass; Microtus; Sexual differences

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE; GROWTH RATE; LABORATORY METHOD; PROTEIN; RODENT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TRAPPING;

ANIMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 34547621793     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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