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Brain structure of skates in relation to their ecology

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Translated from Arkhiv Anatomii, Gistologii i émbriologii, Vol. 86, No. 5, pp. 24–31, May, 1984.

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Myagkov, N.A. Brain structure of skates in relation to their ecology. Neurosci Behav Physiol 16, 356–362 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01148181

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