A protocol for clearing and double-staining squamate specimens

Herpetological Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-54

  Maisano, Jessica Anderson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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