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Alice Chateau1, Béatrice Alpha-Bazin2, Jean Armengaud2

  • 1Biology Department, Campus Jean-Henri Fabre, Avignon Université, INRAE, UMR SQPOV, 84914 Avignon, France.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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PubMed

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