Developmental evolution: Axial patterning in insects

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 16, 1999, Pages

  Dearden, Peter ^a   Akam, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0033606966     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80381-9     Document Type: Note

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