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What history tells us XXXII. The long and tortuous history of epigenetic marks

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Morange, M. What history tells us XXXII. The long and tortuous history of epigenetic marks. J Biosci 38, 451–454 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-013-9354-3

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