Atretic follicles and corpora lutea in the ovaries of fishes: Structure-function correlations and significance

Fish Morphology: Horizon of New Research

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 147-168

  Shanbhag, Bhagyashri A ^a   Saidapur, Srinivas K ^a  

^a KARNATAK UNIVERSITY   (India)

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