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Amphibian development in the virtual absence of gravity

K A Souza1, S D Black, R J Wassersug

  • 1Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, CA 94035.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|March 14, 1995
PubMed

Keywords:
NASA Center ARCNASA Discipline Developmental BiologyNASA Discipline Number 00-00NASA Experiment Number 178256 1/1NASA Program Flight

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