Published in J Mol Biol on January 25, 2010
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Identification of short 'eukaryotic' Okazaki fragments synthesized from a prokaryotic replication origin. EMBO Rep (2003) 1.39
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Two novel families of plasmids from hyperthermophilic archaea encoding new families of replication proteins. Nucleic Acids Res (2010) 1.04
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