Ecology of Colors of Firefly Bioluminescence

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• Publication year

  1980

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1980-10-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.210.4469.560PMID 17841403
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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