Bovine perinatology: Current understanding and future developments

Animal Reproduction: New Research Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 67-106

  Mee, John F ^a  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

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