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Keimei Oh1, Tadashi Matsumoto2,3, Ayumi Yamagami4

  • 1Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, 241-438, Shimoshinjo Nakano, Akita 010-0195, Japan. jmwang@akita-pu.ac.jp.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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