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The nucleotide sequences reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank database and have been assigned the accession numbers M94181-M94183.
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Grossberger, D., Marcuz, A., Fichtel, A. et al. Sequence analysis of sheep T-cell receptor β chains. Immunogenetics 37, 222–226 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00191889
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