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  • 1National & Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Ecological Mariculture, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

Fish & Shellfish Immunology
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Crassostrea gigasFREPGenome expansionInnate immuneSequence diversity

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