Right-handed snakes: convergent evolution of asymmetry for functional specialization

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2007-04-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0600PMID 17307721PMCID PMC2375934
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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