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Free-Standing Homing Endonucleases of T-even Phage: Freeloaders or Functionaries?

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Homing Endonucleases and Inteins

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada

    David R. Edgell

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  1. Wadsworth Center/NYSDOH, Center for Medical Science, 150 New Scotland Ave, Albany, NY, 12208, USA

    Marlene Belfort  & Victoria Derbyshire  & 

  2. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, A417 Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    David W. Wood

  3. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Center Institute, 1100 Fairview Ave. N. Mailstop A3-023, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA

    Barry L. Stoddard

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Edgell, D.R. (2005). Free-Standing Homing Endonucleases of T-even Phage: Freeloaders or Functionaries?. In: Belfort, M., Wood, D.W., Stoddard, B.L., Derbyshire, V. (eds) Homing Endonucleases and Inteins. Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29474-0_9

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