Juvenile hormone extraction, purification, and quantification in ants

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Brent, Colin ^a   Dolezal, Adam ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73349089629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot5246     Document Type: Article

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