Spermatogenesis

Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science

Volumn 1-6, Issue , 2005, Pages 157-177

  Renkawitz Pohl, R ^a   Hempel, L ^a   Hollmann, M ^b   Schafer M A ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1016/B0-44-451924-6/00011-9     Document Type: Chapter

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