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Wei-Hsuan Yen1, Wu-Fu Chen, Ching-Hsiao Cheng

  • 1Graduate Institute of Marine Biotechnology and Department of Life Science and Institute of Biotechnology, National Dong Hwa University, Pingtung 944, Taiwan. wzh@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

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