Gene conversion and purifying selection of a placenta-specific ERV-V envelope gene during simian evolution
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Evolutionary Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1471-2148
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-266