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Maintaining Biological Cultures and Measuring Gene Expression in Aphis nerii: A Non-model System for Plant-insect Interactions
Published on: August 31, 2018
BARD workshop: "insect reproductive molecules: from model systems to agricultural applications"
Frank W Avila1, Geoffrey D Findlay, Amalia Gothilf
1Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Molecular Reproduction and Development
|December 6, 2012
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