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A P Galkin1,2, M E Velizhanina2, Yu V Sopova3,2

  • 1St. Petersburg Branch of Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia. apgalkin@mail.ru.

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