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Experimental Manipulation of Body Size to Estimate Morphological Scaling Relationships in Drosophila
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Experimental Manipulation of Body Size to Estimate Morphological Scaling Relationships in Drosophila

Published on: October 1, 2011

Scaling in biology: the consequences of size

K Schmidt-Nielsen

    The Journal of Experimental Zoology
    |October 1, 1975
    PubMed

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