Ant fat extraction with a Soxhlet extractor

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Smith, Chris R ^a   Tschinkel, Walter R ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73349103772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot5243     Document Type: Article

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