Transcriptome analysis reveals novel patterning and pigmentation genes underlying Heliconius butterfly wing pattern variation
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Genomics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1471-2164
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-288