Mammalian cloning: Advances and limitations

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 199-207

  Solter, Davor ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; CLONING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

EID: 0034572932     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35042066     Document Type: Review

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