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Karine Loth1,2, Nicolas Parisot3, Françoise Paquet1

  • 1Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS UPR 4301, 45071 Orléans, France.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
|October 27, 2022
PubMed

Keywords:
3D structureaphid BCRbioinsecticidal peptidedefensin peptidesymbiosis

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