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Dissection and Immunostaining of Imaginal Discs from Drosophila melanogaster
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The role of the dpa locus in mice
Noriatsu Shigemura1, Keiko Yasumatsu, Ryusuke Yoshida
1Section of Oral Neuroscience, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Chemical Senses
|March 2, 2005
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