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Successful beyond expectation: David Perkins’s research with chromosome rearrangements in Neurospora

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Kasbekar, D.P. Successful beyond expectation: David Perkins’s research with chromosome rearrangements in Neurospora. J Biosci 32, 191–195 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-007-0019-y

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