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Interactions between daylength and light intensity in the growth and chlorophyll content ofAcetabularia crenulata

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    John Terborgh &  Kenneth V. Thimann

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass

    John Terborgh &  Kenneth V. Thimann

  3. The Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts, USA

    Kenneth V. Thimann

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Supported in part by a grant, No. GM 10599 from the National Institutes of Health to Profs.K. V. Thimann andJ. G. Torrey, and by a predoctoral fellowship from the same Institutes toJohn Terborgh. We wish to thank Dr.Kurt Beth of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, for many stimulating discussions with one of us (K.V.T.).

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Terborgh, J., Thimann, K.V. Interactions between daylength and light intensity in the growth and chlorophyll content ofAcetabularia crenulata . Planta 63, 83–98 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883513

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