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Evolution of mammalian HNRPG and its relationship with the putative azoospermia factor RBM

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Delbridge, M.L., Ma, K., Subbarao, M.N. et al. Evolution of mammalian HNRPG and its relationship with the putative azoospermia factor RBM . Mammalian Genome 9, 168–170 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900712

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