A genome-wide screen identifies a single β-defensin gene cluster in the chicken: implications for the origin and evolution of mammalian defensins
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- 13 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Genomics
- Vol. 5 (1), 56
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-5-56
Abstract
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