Hormones and Reproductive Cycles in Rodents

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates - Volume 5

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 215-240

  Bales, Karen L ^a   Hostetler, Caroline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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