Effect of increased ovulation rate on embryo and foetal survival as a model for selection by ovulation rate in rabbits
Submitted: 2015-07-06
|Accepted: 2015-11-04
|Published: 2016-06-29
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early foetal survival, embryo survival, high ovulation rate, rabbit
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