A morphometric study of the lung of a Humboldt penguin (Sphenicus humboldti).

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia. Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C

• Publication date

  1987-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  PMID 3434830
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

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