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Adrienne Baillet1, Béatrice Mandon-Pepin

  • 1Laboratoire de Génétique et Biologie Cellulaire, EA 4589 Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, F-78035 Versailles cedex, France. adrienne.baillet@uvsq.fr

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