Gamete and Zygote Transport

Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction: Two-Volume Set

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 197-232

  Suarez, Susan S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervix; Chemotaxis; Embryo; Oocyte; Oviduct; Spermatozoa; Uterus; Vagina

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942858899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397175-3.00005-3     Document Type: Chapter

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