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Hiroyuki Kurihara1, Tetsuaki Morita, Masashige Shinkai

  • 1School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656 Tokyo, Japan.

Biotechnology Letters
|June 25, 2005
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