Finding the right plugin: Mosquitoes have the answer

PLoS Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Chapman, Tracey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MATING SYSTEM; MOSQUITO; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEMINAL PLASMA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

INSECT PROTEIN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS;

EID: 73949161012     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000273     Document Type: Article

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