Polychaetes in Environmental Studies

Annelids in Modern Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 203-227

  Díaz Castañeda, Victoria ^a   Reish, Donald J ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell induced tissue regeneration; Human gene therapy; Nuclear localization signaling peptides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873253061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470455203.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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