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Delayed Implantation in the Grey Seal, Halichoerus grypus (Fab.)
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Delayed Implantation in the Grey Seal, Halichoerus grypus (Fab.)

  • K. BACKHOUSE1 &
  • H. R. HEWER2 

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Abstract

EARLY in March 1870 a large grey seal cow was killed by Prof. W. Turner. “A large corpus luteum was in the left ovary but the uterus was empty1.”

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  1. Turner, W., J. Anat., 4, 270 (1870).

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  1. Department of Anatomy, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School,

    K. BACKHOUSE

  2. Department of Zoology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, S.W.7.

    H. R. HEWER

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BACKHOUSE, K., HEWER, H. Delayed Implantation in the Grey Seal, Halichoerus grypus (Fab.). Nature 178, 550 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178550a0

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