Interspecific and extraspecific pregnancies in equids: Anything goes

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 384-392

  Allen, W R ^a,c   Short, R V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c TBA Equine Fertility Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BREEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; HORSE; INFERTILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS ASINUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; GOES;

EID: 0030883961     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a023123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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