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Kurihara, Y., Suh, DS., Suzuki, H. et al. Chromosomal locations of Ag-NORs and clusters of ribosomal DNA in laboratory strains of mice. Mammalian Genome 5, 225–228 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00360550
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