The influence of experimentally reduced vaginal flora in oestrus females on the mating behaviour of male domestic dogs (canis familiaris)

Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 12

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 391-396

  Dzięcioł, Michał ^a   Niżański, Wojciech ^a   Kozdrowski, Roland ^a   Ochota, Małgorzata ^a   Stańczyk, Ewa ^a  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

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EID: 84956544614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/9781461459279     Document Type: Chapter

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