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Parental investment by skin feeding in a caecilian amphibian

✍ Scribed by Kupfer, Alexander; Müller, Hendrik; Antoniazzi, Marta M.; Jared, Carlos; Greven, Hartmut; Nussbaum, Ronald A.; Wilkinson, Mark

Book ID
109895530
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
317 KB
Volume
440
Category
Article
ISSN
0028-0836

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