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  1. Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

    Umesh Kumar

  2. Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

    Priyanka Verma

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  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University Department of Psychology, Rochester, MI, USA

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  2. Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Yuri Sugano

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Kumar, U., Verma, P. (2019). Fertility. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1378-1

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