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The Green Monster Process for the Generation of Yeast Strains Carrying Multiple Gene Deletions
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Published on: December 15, 2012

An extensive deletion causing overproduction of yeast iso-2-cytochrome c

G L McKnight, T S Cardillo, F Sherman

    Cell
    |August 1, 1981
    PubMed

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