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Yoo, J., Ponce de Leon, F.A., Stone, R.T. et al. Cloning and chromosomal assignment of the bovine interleukin-2 receptor alpha (IL-2Rα) gene. Mammalian Genome 6, 751–753 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00354302
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