## Abstract Reptiles represent an interesting animal model to investigate the influence of temperature on molecular circadian clocks. The ruin lizard __Podarcis sicula__ lives in a continental climate and it is subjected to wide range of environmental temperatures during the course of the year. As
The role of the pineal and the retinae in the expression of circadian locomotor rhythmicity in the ruin lizard,Podarcis sicula
✍ Scribed by Augusto Foà
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 754 KB
- Volume
- 169
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-7594
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