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Manipulation of Gene Function in Mexican Cavefish
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Development: the natural history of genes
1Department of Developmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5329, USA.
Cell
|January 27, 2000
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