Walking on the chromosome: Drosophila and the molecularization of development

From Molecular Genetics to Genomics: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 63-78

  Weber, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203375334     Document Type: Chapter

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