Genetics of reproduction in ruminants;Génétique de la reproduction chez les ruminants

Productions Animales

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-100

  Bodin, L ^a   Elsen, J M ^a   Hanocq, E ^a   Francois D ^a   Lajous, D ^a   Manfredi, E ^a   Mialon, M M ^a   Boichard, D ^a   Foulley, J L ^a   Sancristobal Gaudy, M ^a   Teyssier, J ^a   Thimonier, J ^a   Chemineau, P ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

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