Morphology of peripheral blood cells from various Turkish snakes

North-Western Journal of Zoology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-73

  Arikan, Hüseyin ^a   Göçmen, Bayram ^a   Atatür, Mehmet K ^a   Kumlutaş, Yusuf ^b   Çiçek, Kerim ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood cells; Boidae; Colubridae; Elapidae; Hematology; Leptotyphlopidae; Typhlopidae; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

BOIDAE; COLUBRIDAE; EIRENIS ROTHI; ELAPIDAE; ERYX JACULUS; HEMORRHOIS NUMMIFER; LEPTOTYPHLOPIDAE; LEPTOTYPHLOPS; MACRORHYNCHUS; MACROVIPERA LEBETINA; MALPOLON MONSPESSULANUS; NATRIX NATRIX; PLATYCEPS COLLARIS; SERPENTES; SPALEROSOPHIS DIADEMA; TELESCOPUS FALLAX; TYPHLOPIDAE; TYPHLOPS VERMICULARIS; VIPERA; VIPERIDAE; WALTERINNESIA AEGYPTIA; XANTHINA; ZAMENIS HOHENACKERI;

EID: 69549106095     PISSN: 15849074     EISSN: 18435629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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