Flies' lives on a crab

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Stensmyr, Marcus C ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; DROSOPHILA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; DROSOPHILA; LARVA; PUPA; SYMBIOSIS;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; GECARCINIDAE;

EID: 34548234142     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.015     Document Type: Short Survey

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