Fertility and trace elements - An underestimated problem

Cattle Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-22

  Kendall, N R ^a   Bone, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Telsol Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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