Molecular biosemiotics: Molecules carry out semiosis in living systems

Semiotica

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 195-215

  Kawade, Yoshimi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0013680539     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.195     Document Type: Article

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