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All issues Volume 43 / No 2 (March-April 2003) Reprod. Nutr. Dev., 43 2 (2003) 167-177 References
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Reprod. Nutr. Dev.
Volume 43, Number 2, March-April 2003
Page(s) 167 - 177
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/rnd:2003015

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