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Environmental control of juvenile hormone (JH) secretion and caste differentiation in termites

✍ Scribed by M. Lüscher

Book ID
115938981
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1972
Tongue
English
Weight
483 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-6480

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