The Myofibrillar Protein, Projectin, is Highly Conserved Across Insect Evolution Except for Its PEVK Domain
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Molecular Evolution
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-2844,1432-1432
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9177-2