Tame affairs: domesticated transposase and domestic pigs
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Tame affairs: domesticated transposase and domestic pigs.
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عنوان ژورنال: EMBO reports
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1469-221X,1469-3178
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2010.31