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S Petriella1, J C Reboreda, M Otero

  • 1Laboratorio de Fisiologia del Comportamiento, Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology
|January 1, 1989
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