Unlocking amniote live birth: The 'other' mammalian model

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales

Volumn 148, Issue 455-456, 2015, Pages 52-59

  Laird, Melanie K ^a   Turancova, Michaela ^a   McAllan, Bronwyn M ^a   Murphy, Christopher R ^a   Thompson, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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