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Daniel H Schott1, David K Cureton, Sean P Whelan

  • 1Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|December 13, 2005
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