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Stable propagation of ‘selfish’ genetic elements

✍ Scribed by Soundarapandian Velmurugan; Shwetal Mehta; Dina Uzri; Makkuni Jayaram

Book ID
110636674
Publisher
Indian Academy of Sciences
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
600 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0250-5991

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