REV-ERBs: more than the sum of the individual parts

Markus Stratmann1, Ueli Schibler

  • 1Department of Molecular Biology, Sciences III, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

Cell Metabolism
|June 12, 2012
PubMed

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