Evaluating Thermoregulation in Reptiles: The Fallacy of the Inappropriately Applied Method

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  2004

• Venue

  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

• Publication date

  2004-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/422052PMID 15449240
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