Chicken or egg? Outcomes of experimental manipulations of maternally transmitted hormones depend on administration method – a meta‐analysis

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  2018

• Venue

  Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society

• Publication date

  2018-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/brv.12406PMID 29573376
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