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Commentary

Association of a centromere specific nucleosome with the yeast plasmid partitioning locus

Implications beyond plasmid partitioning

Pages 203-207 | Received 16 May 2011, Accepted 15 Jul 2011, Published online: 01 Sep 2011

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