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A human candidate spermatogenesis gene, RBM1, is conserved and amplified on the marsupial Y chromosome

M L Delbridge1, J L Harry, R Toder

  • 1School of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.

Nature Genetics
|February 1, 1997
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