Ultrastructural characteristics of blood cells of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C: Anatomia Histologia Embryologia

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 332-335

  Casal, A B ^a   Freire, F ^a,b   Bautista Harris, G ^a,c   Arencibia, A ^a   Oros J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Health Sciences Building

^c Unit of Toxicology   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TURTLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34548532310     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: 14390264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2007.00773.x     Document Type: Article

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