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[Characteristics of the context shift in the frequency of synonymic codons in Escherichia coli]

M Iu Borodovskiĭ, V A Shepelev, A A Aleksandrov

    Molekuliarnaia Biologiia
    |May 1, 1988
    PubMed

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