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What history tells us XII. Boris Ephrussi’s continuing efforts to create a “genetics of differentiation”

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Morange, M. What history tells us XII. Boris Ephrussi’s continuing efforts to create a “genetics of differentiation”. J Biosci 33, 21–25 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-008-0018-7

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