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A problem in the photometric cluster analysis of muscle fibre histochemistry

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Swatland, H.J., Mullen, K. A problem in the photometric cluster analysis of muscle fibre histochemistry. Histochem J 11, 740–744 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01004737

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