Physiological color changes in reptiles.

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• Publication year

  1969

• Venue

  American Zoologist

• Publication date

  1969-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/ICB/9.2.489PMID 4311991
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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