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Cultivation of Caenorhabditis elegans on new cheap monoxenic media without peptone

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|Jan 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2021-036 | Journal eISSN: 2640-396X | Journal ISSN: 0022-300X
Language: English
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Published on: Jan 1, 2021
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