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Why do female mice mate with multiple males?

✍ Scribed by Kerstin E. Thonhauser,Shirley Raveh,Attila Hettyey…

Book ID
125419794
Publisher
Springer
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
234 KB
Volume
67
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-5443

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