Food resource allocation patterns in lactating females in a long-term selection experiment for litter size in mice

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Issue		Genet. Sel. Evol. Volume 34, Number 1, January-February 2002


Page(s)		83 - 104
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/gse:2001005

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