Mammalian diversity: Gametes, embryos and reproduction

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 99-107

  Behringer, Richard R ^a   Eakin, Guy S ^a,c   Renfree, Marilyn B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAMETE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MONOTREMATA; OVIPARITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA;

EID: 29244433186     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD05137     Document Type: Article

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