Warsaw wild captive pisula stryjek rats (wwcps) - establishing a breeding colony of norway rat in captivity

Polish Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-70

  Stryjek, Rafal ^a   Pisula, Wojciech ^b  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

domestication; Rattus norvegicus; wild rat; wild type rat

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956045013     PISSN: 00792993     EISSN: 16417844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10059-008-0011-x     Document Type: Article

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