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Predicting the Effectiveness of Population Replacement Strategy Using Mathematical Modeling
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Predicting the Effectiveness of Population Replacement Strategy Using Mathematical Modeling

Published on: July 4, 2007

Shernita Lee1, LaShania Clinedinst2

  • 1Graduate School, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. shernita@vt.edu.

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
|September 10, 2020
PubMed

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