Pheromones and mammalian reproduction

Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2041-2058

  Vandenbergh, John G ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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