What's your poison

Heredity

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 519-

  Wuster W ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VENOM;

ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NOTE;

ANIMALS; VENOMS;

EID: 77952673429     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.142     Document Type: Note

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