The Tammar Wallaby, Macropus eugenii: A model kangaroo for the study of developmental and reproductive biology

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Hickford, Danielle ^a   Frankenberg, Stephen ^a   Renfree, Marilyn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BREEDING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH; KANGAROO; LACTATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 72149104777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo137     Document Type: Article

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