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2 - Introducing the Common Shrew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2019

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Nikolay A. Shchipanov ,
Jan Zima  and
Sara Churchfield
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Jeremy B. Searle ,
P. David Polly  and
Jan Zima
Jeremy B. Searle
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Cornell University, New York
P. David Polly
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Indiana University
Jan Zima
Affiliation:
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
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Shrews, Chromosomes and Speciation , pp. 19 - 67
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