Handling stress and plasma corticosterone levels in captive male western diamond-backed rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-233

  Schuett, Gordon W ^a   Taylor, Emily N ^b   Van Kirk, Edward A ^c   Murdoch, William J ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS; CROTALUS ATROX; SERPENTES;

EID: 4644324907     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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