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Maternal investment and sex-allocation in the Galapagos fur seal,Arctocephalus galapagoensis

✍ Scribed by Fritz Trillmich

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Weight: 865 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-5443
DOI: 10.1007/bf00300855

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