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Jiyong Wang1, Sharon T Jia1, Songtao Jia1

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Trends in Genetics : TIG
|March 24, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
constitutive heterochromatindynamicsepigenetic adaptationstress

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