Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 11 , Pages 930-931 , November 2008

What Fossils Can Tell Us About the Evolution of Viviparity and Placentation

  • A.M. Carter

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,Accepted 30 July 2008.

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PII: S0143-4004(08)00224-5

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.07.012

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 11 , Pages 930-931 , November 2008

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