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Surveying Low-Cost Methods to Measure Lifespan and Healthspan in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Life history variation in Thlaspi caerulescens
1School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Hatherly Laboratories, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter EX4 4PS. M.R.Macnair@exeter.ac.uk
The New Phytologist
|December 21, 2006
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