Health status in an antarctic top predator: micronuclei frequency and white Blood cell differentials in the south polar skua (catharacta maccormicki)

Polarforschung

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-5

  Kursa, Maryna ^a   Bezrukov, Volodymyr ^a  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENOME; HEALTH STATUS; IMMUNITY; PREDATOR; SEABIRD;

AVES; CATHARACTA MACCORMICKI; CHARADRIIFORMES;

EID: 47249103802     PISSN: 00322490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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