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Montgomery, G.W., Penty, J.M., Lord, E.A. et al. The gonadotrophin-releasing hormone receptor maps to sheep Chromosome 6 outside of the region of the FecB locus. Mammalian Genome 6, 436–438 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00355648
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