Using Drosophila for studying fundamental processes in hearing

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 674-680

  Lu, Qianhao ^a   Senthilan, Pingkalai R ^a   Effertz, Thomas ^a   Nadrowski, Björn ^a   Göpfert, Martin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 73449124122     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icp072     Document Type: Article

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