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The blood system parameters (erythropoiesis in bone marrow, peripheral blood) of brown rat have been studied for the first time in the foothills of the Central Caucasus. Several species-specific features of these parameters have been revealed that distinguishing the brown rat from other representatives of the family Muridae.
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Original Russian Text © M.M. Emkuzheva, E.Zh. Tembotova, F.A. Tembotova, 2014, published in Ekologiya, 2014, No. 1, pp. 62–69.
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Emkuzheva, M.M., Tembotova, E.Z. & Tembotova, F.A. On characteristics of the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus Berk. (1769), in the meadow steppes of the Elbrus variant in the Central Caucasus. Russ J Ecol 45, 62–69 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413614010056
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