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Research Paper

A standardized nomenclature and atlas of the female terminalia of Drosophila melanogaster

Eden W. McQueena Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;b Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Einat Zelingerg Department of Entomology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel;r Center for Scientific Imaging, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, IsraelView further author information
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Pages 128-151 | Received 04 Jan 2022, Accepted 22 Mar 2022, Published online: 14 May 2022

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