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Muscle Receptor Organs in the Crayfish Abdomen: A Student Laboratory Exercise in Proprioception
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Ca2+-binding proteins in crayfish abdominal muscle. Evidence for a calmodulin lacking trimethyllysine

H G Hergenhahn, G Kegel, D Sedlmeier

    Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
    |June 14, 1984
    PubMed

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