Parent-infant relationship in marmosets

Monkeys: Biology, Behavior and Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 77-96

  Saito, Atsuko ^a   Nakamura, Katsuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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