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. 1998 Apr;62(4):752–757. doi: 10.1086/301811

Mitochondrial genetics '98 is the bottleneck cracked?

J Poulton 1, V Macaulay 1, D R Marchington 1
PMCID: PMC1377049  PMID: 9529369

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