Dental and skull anomalies in feral coypu, Myocastor coypus

Archives of Oral Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 849-854

  Sone, Keiko ^a   Koyasu, Kazuhiro ^b   Oda, Sen Ichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dental diseases; Dental injuries; Feral coypu; Skull injuries

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INJURY; JAPAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; SKULL; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH INJURY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; JAPAN; MALE; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SKULL; TOOTH DISEASES; TOOTH INJURIES;

ANIMALIA; MYOCASTOR COYPUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 4143107913     PISSN: 00039969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2004.02.015     Document Type: Article

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