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Yihe Li1, Xiaolong Gao2, Zhuoao Gao2

  • 1School of Life Sciences and Medicine, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; International Joint Laboratory on Extremophilic Bacteria and Biological Synthesis, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; Zibo Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology and New Pharmaceutical Applications, Zibo 255000, China.

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids
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