Immunogenetics

The Genetics of the Pig: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 101-133

  Lunney, Joan K ^a   Eguchi Ogawa, Tomoko ^b   Uenishi, Hirohide ^b   Wertz, Nancy ^c   Butler, John E ^c  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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