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Mextli Is a Novel Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4E-Binding Protein That Promotes Translation in Drosophila melanogaster

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Pages 2854-2864 | Received 08 Oct 2012, Accepted 23 Apr 2013, Published online: 20 Mar 2023

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