The biology of human twinning: A needed change of perspective

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 255-264

  Boklage, C E ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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