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Research Article

Sequence-Specific Epigenetic Effects of the Maternal Somatic Genome on Developmental Rearrangements of the Zygotic Genome in Paramecium primaurelia

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Pages 3589-3599 | Received 06 Mar 1996, Accepted 22 Apr 1997, Published online: 29 Mar 2023

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