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Sex selection in mammals: a review

S I Jafar1, A P Flint

  • 1Department of Physiology and Environmental Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK.

Theriogenology
|July 15, 1996
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