Long-lived mutant, gene knockout and transgenic mice

Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 191-211

  Bartke, Andrzej ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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