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Gene Expression

cis-Regulatory Logic of Short-Range Transcriptional Repression in Drosophila melanogaster

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Pages 3411-3420 | Received 29 Sep 2004, Accepted 03 Feb 2005, Published online: 27 Mar 2023

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