Progress in the Study of Maternal Behavior in the Rat: Hormonal, Nonhormonal, Sensory, and Developmental Aspects

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue C, 1979, Pages 225-311

  Rosenblatt, Jay S ^a   Siegel, Harold I ^a   Mayer, Anne D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000731346     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(08)60096-0     Document Type: Article

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