The role of pigments of the melanin-melanoidin type its the succession of the prebiological and biological evolutions
β Scribed by T. A. Telegina; T. E. Pavlovskaya
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-0875
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