Maternal Co-ordinate Gene Regulation and Axis Polarity in the Scuttle Fly Megaselia abdita
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Maternal Co-ordinate Gene Regulation and Axis Polarity in the Scuttle Fly Megaselia abdita
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Genetics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005042