Iron economy in insects: Transport, metabolism, and storage

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 195-215

  Locke, Michael ^a   Nichol, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytosolic ferritin; Ferritin; Secretory ferritin; Serum ferritin; Transferrin; Vacuolar ferritin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001657675     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.en.37.010192.001211     Document Type: Article

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