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Taste buds in the palatal mucosa of snakes

Herman BerkhoudtEvolutionary Morphology, Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Leiden University, van der Klaauw Laboratory, 63 Kaiser Sreet, P.O. Box 9516, 2300RALeiden, The Netherlands
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Perrin WilsonDepartment of Biology, Lafayette College,Easton, PA18042, U.S.A
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Bruce YoungDepartment of Biology, Lafayette College,Easton, PA18042, U.S.ACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 185-188 | Received 28 Sep 1999, Accepted 26 Jan 2001, Published online: 02 Dec 2015

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