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Analysis of Actomyosin Dynamics at Local Cellular and Tissue Scales Using Time-lapse Movies of Cultured Drosophila Egg Chambers
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[Age peculiarities of actomyosin enzymic properties in embryogenesis]

N A Lebedeva, A L Solov'ev, L F Efimova

    Ukrainskii Biokhimicheskii Zhurnal (1978)
    |July 1, 1978
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