Likely targets for immunocontraception in marsupials

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 131-136

  Rodger, John C ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; AUSTRALIA; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; NEW ZEALAND; OOCYTES; POPULATION CONTROL; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031005911     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/R96073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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