The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera): A model for studies of development and pest biology

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Brown, Susan J ^a   Shippy, Teresa D ^a   Miller, Sherry ^a   Bolognesi, Renata ^a   Beeman, Richard W ^b   Lorenzen, Marcé D ^b   Bucher, Gregor ^c   Wimmer, Ernst A ^c   Klingler, Martin ^d  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAIN MARKETING AND PRODUCTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 73349109479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo126     Document Type: Article

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