Water balance and osmoregulation in a free-ranging tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris unguicularis, of the Namib Desert
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Insect Physiology
- Vol. 28 (9), 737-742
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1910(82)90133-0
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