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Anna Balkenius1, Christian Balkenius

  • 1Chemical Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Chemical Ecology, Box 102, Vaxthusvagen 3, Alnarp 230 53, Sweden. anna.balkenius@ltj.slu.se

The Journal of Experimental Biology
|September 14, 2010
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