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Roman Holič1, Lucia Pokorná1, Peter Griač1

  • 1Centre of Biosciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava, Slovakia.

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Schizosaccharomyces pombebiosynthesisfatty acidslipidsregulationPhospholipid biosynthesisYeast lipid metabolismFission yeast researchMembrane biology

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