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The nucleotide sequences reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession numbers Z12968 and Z12969.
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Hein, W.R., Tunnacliffe, A. Invariant components of the sheep T-cell antigen receptor: cloning of the CD3 ε and Tcr ζ chains. Immunogenetics 37, 279–284 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00187454
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