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David E. Alexander, Jeffrey Blodig, Shiu-Yie Hsieh, Relationship between Function and Mechanical Properties of the Pleopods of Isopod Crustaceans, Invertebrate Biology, Vol. 114, No. 2 (Spring, 1995), pp. 169-179
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