Evolution and assembly of an extremely scrambled gene.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 28, 2000

Authors

L F Landweber1, T C Kuo, E A Curtis

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. lfl@princeton.edu

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