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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession numbers L20983-L21005.
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Tischmann, C., Feige, U., Rüegg, D. et al. Sequence and diversity of rat T-cell receptor α-chain-encoding genes. Immunogenetics 39, 155–158 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00188620
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