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Examination of Drosophila Larval Tracheal Terminal Cells by Light Microscopy
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Published on: July 9, 2013

Tube continued: morphogenesis of the Drosophila tracheal system

Jodi Schottenfeld1, Yanjun Song, Amin S Ghabrial

  • 1Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, 1214 BRBII/III, 421 Curie Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

Current Opinion in Cell Biology
|August 27, 2010
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