Basic maintenance and breeding of the opossum Monodelphis domestica

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Keyte, Anna L ^a   Smith, Kathleen K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79954572836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot5073     Document Type: Article

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