Ultrastructural aspects of venom secretion in anuran cutaneous glands

Handbook of Natural Toxins: Reptile Venoms and Toxins

Volumn 5, Issue , 2018, Pages 777-802

  Delfino, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

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