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Changhui Peng1, Hua Ouyang, Qiong Gao

  • 1Institut des Sciences de L'Environnement, Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3P8.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 28, 2007
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