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Rapid evolution of reproductive proteins in abalone and Drosophila

Tami M Panhuis1, Nathaniel L Clark, Willie J Swanson

  • 1Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, PO Box 357730, Seattle, WA 98195-7730, USA.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
|April 15, 2006
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