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Environmental Temperature and the Reptilian Nervous System

Nature volume 183, pages 62–63 (1959)Cite this article

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IT has been found that the terminal plexus of the reptilian brain undergoes marked changes with the environmental temperature.

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    B. B. BOYCOTT

  2. Anatomy Department, University College London, Gower Street, London, W.C.1.

    R. W. GUILLERY

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BOYCOTT, B., GUILLERY, R. Environmental Temperature and the Reptilian Nervous System. Nature 183, 62–63 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183062b0

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