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THE EFFECT OF PENICILLIN ON EGGS OF THE SEA URCHIN, ARBACIA PUNCTULATA

R J Henry1, M D Henry

  • 1Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

The Journal of General Physiology
|October 30, 2009
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