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Fluorescent Labeling of Drosophila Heart Structures
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Published on: October 13, 2009

[Mutations of genes affecting heart development of Drosophila]

D L Li1, Q Dai, W Z Yuan

  • 1College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China.

Yi Chuan Xue Bao = Acta Genetica Sinica
|July 10, 2001
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