On the relationship between rabbit age and lens dry weight: Improved determination of the age of rabbits in the wild

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 2030-2034

  Augusteyn, Robert C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GESTATION PERIOD; LENS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TISSUE FIXATION; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, WILD; ARTIFACTS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; ORGAN SIZE; RABBITS;

EID: 35648962926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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