Blood cell morphology of the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 503-508

  Sacchi, Roberto ^a   Pupin, Fabio ^a   Zuffi, Marco A L ^b   Scali, Stefano ^c   Boncompagni, Eleonora ^a   Binda, Alessandra ^c   Galeotti, Paolo ^a   Fasola, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Museo Civico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; LIZARD;

GEKKONIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SERPENTOPLASMA; TARENTOLA MAURITANICA; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 35148892287     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853807782152615     Document Type: Article

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