Masculinization through Implanting Testes into the Female Armadillidium vulgare, an Isopod Crustacean
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Japan Academy
سال: 1959
ISSN: 0021-4280
DOI: 10.2183/pjab1945.35.95