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Synthetic chromosome evolves the yeast genome

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Teng, F., Li, W. & Zhou, Q. Synthetic chromosome evolves the yeast genome. Sci. China Life Sci. 62, 708–709 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-019-9516-2

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