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Alper Melih Ucar1,2, Deividas Paliovkinas1,2, Živilė Strazdaitė-Žielienė1

  • 1Laboratory of Genetics, State Scientific Research Institute Nature Research Centre, Akademijos Str. 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.

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