Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 216-219 , March 2009

Reproductive Glycogenetics – A Critical Factor in Pregnancy Success and Species Hybridisation

,Accepted 10 December 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.12.005

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 216-219 , March 2009

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