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We gratefully acknowledge the support of NSF Grant DCB 8408233 (W. H. S.) and NIH Grant RR01602 (J. L. V.). Much of this work was carried out by the first three authors, who were undergraduate students supported in part by the RUI grants program of the NSF.
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Sevilir, N.S., Torgerson, E., Guajardo, A.C. et al. Acid phosphatase polymorphism in a laboratory marsupial,Monodelphis domestica . Biochem Genet 27, 755–759 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02396066
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