Structure of Cypridina luciferinol, “reversibly oxidized Cypridina luciferin”
✍ Scribed by Yoshiaki Toya; Shin-ichi Nakatsuka; Toshio Goto
- Book ID
- 108382380
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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