Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Modifications in Rats

The Laboratory Rat

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 165-189

  Agca, Yuksel ^a   Critser, John K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012074903-4/50010-8     Document Type: Chapter

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