Fecundity and Fertility

Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Buck Louis, Germaine M ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Fecundity; Fertility; Multiple births; Puberty; Semen; Sex ratios; Time to pregnancy; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387902.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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