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Experimental Manipulation of Body Size to Estimate Morphological Scaling Relationships in Drosophila
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Decoupled scaling relationship between bamboo individual size and leaf morphological characteristics
Jun Sun1,2, Yunqi He1,3, Jinlong Li2
1School of Energy, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Monitoring and Productivity Improvement of Cultivated Land, Anqing Normal University, Anqing, 246133, China.
BMC Plant Biology
|April 23, 2026
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