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  1. Départment de Mathématiques et de Statistique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Jacques Bélair

  2. Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Leon Glass

  3. Department of Physiology Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, 23298, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

    Donald C. Mikulecky

  4. Dept. of General Biology, Vanderbilt University, 37235, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.

    Carl Hirschie Johnson

  5. Limburgs Universitair Centrum, B-3610, Diepenbeek, Belgium

    C. Van den Broeck

  6. Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, 11794, Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.

    Lev Ginzburg

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Bélair, J., Glass, L., Mikulecky, D.C. et al. Book reviews. Bltn Mathcal Biology 50, 313–328 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02458885

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