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. 1992 Apr;174(8):2419–2424. doi: 10.1128/jb.174.8.2419-2424.1992

Retrons and multicopy single-stranded DNA.

M Inouye 1, S Inouye 1
PMCID: PMC205876  PMID: 1372889

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