Melatonin in unicellular organisms and plants

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-6

  Hardeland, Rüdiger ^a   Balzer, Ivonne ^a   Fuhrberg, Birgit ^a   Behrmann, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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