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Eric Parmentier1, Jean-Paul Lagardère, Jean-Baptiste Braquegnier

  • 1Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de chimie, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium. E.Parmentier@ulg.ac.be

The Journal of Experimental Biology
|July 22, 2006
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