Gene induction and desiccation stress in nematodes

Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 126-156

  Burnell, Ann M ^a   Tunnacliffe, Alan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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