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Discrimination of alarm pheromone (E)-β-farnesene by aphid odorant-binding proteins

✍ Scribed by Huili Qiao; Elena Tuccori; Xiaoli He; Angelo Gazzano; Linda Field; Jing-Jiang Zhou; Paolo Pelosi


Book ID
116535678
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
559 KB
Volume
39
Category
Article
ISSN
0965-1748

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