Larval Density and Variation of Body Size in Laboratory Lines of Drosophila melanogaster

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 883-884

  Lazebnyi, O E ^a   Zakharchuk, E V ^a   Imasheva, A G ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

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