Google Embryo for Building Quantitative Understanding of an Embryo As It Builds Itself. I. Lessons from Ganymede and Google Earth

Biological Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 390-395

  Gordon, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

embryogenesis; Ganymede; Google Earth; history of astronomy; Jupiter; planetary exploration; robotic microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865290251     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/BIOT_a_00011     Document Type: Article

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