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BMC Evol Bioljournal_title
BMC evolutionary biologyauthors
Ortiz-Rivas B,Jaubert-Possamai S,Tanguy S,Gauthier JP,Tagu D,Claude Rdoi
10.1186/1471-2148-12-216subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-11-12 00:00:00pages
216issn
1471-2148pii
1471-2148-12-216journal_volume
12pub_type
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