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Changes in the synaptinemal complex during meiotic prophase in mosquito oocytes

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Roth, T.F. Changes in the synaptinemal complex during meiotic prophase in mosquito oocytes. Protoplasma 61, 346–386 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01248989

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