Sex determination and differentiation

Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 245-260

  Swain, Amanda ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012515400-0/50011-7     Document Type: Chapter

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