The chemical stimulus and its detection

Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 35-41

  Eisthen, Heather L ^a   Schwenk, Kurt ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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