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The Leakage and Transamination of Amino Acids in vitro, by the Germinal Sacs of Marine Digenea.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Roy.J. Richards
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College, Swansea.

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