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International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction Volume 1, 1979 - Issue 2
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Quantitative relationships between the ingestion of protein-rich material and ovarian development in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Wied.)

K. L. WILLIAMS Department of Genetics, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475 and (L.B.B, and A.C.M. v G.) CSIRO Division of Entomology, P.O. Box 1700, Canberra, Australia
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L. BARTON BROWNE Department of Genetics, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475 and (L.B.B, and A.C.M. v G.) CSIRO Division of Entomology, P.O. Box 1700, Canberra, Australia
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A. C.M. van GERWEN Department of Genetics, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475 and (L.B.B, and A.C.M. v G.) CSIRO Division of Entomology, P.O. Box 1700, Canberra, Australia
Pages 75-88 | Received 09 Oct 1978, Published online: 10 Sep 2012

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