Establishing long-term colonies of marsupials to provide models for studying developmental mechanisms and their application to fertility control

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 197-209

  Selwood, Lynne ^a   Cui, Shuliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY; FERTILITY; MARSUPIAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; SMINTHOPSIS MACROURA;

EID: 33745503063     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO05052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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