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- ↑ Les modalités de la reproduction et le determinisme du sexe chez quelques Nematodes libres. V Nigon - Annales de Sciences Naturelles-Zool. Biol. Anim., 1949
- ↑ Reproductive patterns and attempts at reciprocal crossing of Rhabditis elegans maupas, 1900, and Rhabditis briggsae Dougherty and nigon, 1949 (Nematoda: Rhabditidae). Victor Nigon and Ellsworth C. Dougherty, JEZ-A Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Volume 112, Issue 3, December 1949, Pages 485–503, doi : 10.1002/jez.1401120307
- ↑ History of research on C. elegans and other free-living nematodes as model organisms. Victor Marc Nigon and Marie-Anne Félix at wormbook.org
- ↑ "patents justia".
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