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Gabriel V Markov1, Raquel Tavares, Chantal Dauphin-Villemant

  • 1Molecular Zoology Team, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1 and Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon Cedex 07, France.

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|July 3, 2009
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