Placenta
Volume 31 , Pages S21-S26 , March 2010

Review: Marsupials: Placental Mammals with a Difference

  • M.B. Renfree

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,Accepted 23 December 2009.

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PII: S0143-4004(09)00413-5

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.12.023

Placenta
Volume 31 , Pages S21-S26 , March 2010

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