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Published on: November 12, 2012

Functional genetic expression of eukaryotic DNA in Escherichia coli

K Struhl, J R Cameron, R W Davis

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    |May 1, 1976
    PubMed

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