Large body size and short period of activity do not impede fast growth in the long-teeth ground squirrel (Spermophilus fulvus)

Zoologicheskii Zhurnal

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-343

  Vasilieva, N A ^a   Savinetskaya, L E ^a   Tchabovsky, A V ^a  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

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