Minireview: Recent progress in hemocyanin research

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 631-644

  Decker, Heinz ^a   Hellmann, Nadja ^a   Jaenicke, Elmar ^a   Lieb, Bernhard ^a   Meissner, Ulrich ^a   Markl, Jrgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; LIMULUS; MOLLUSCA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 35548966453     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm063     Document Type: Article

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