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Hyeseon Cha1, Ji Myoung Kim, Jae Gyun Oh

  • 1Global Research Laboratory and Department of Life Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Buk-Gu, Gwangju, South Korea. hscha@gist.ac.kr

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|October 22, 2008
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