MicroRNAs support a turtle 1 lizard clade
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Tyler R. Lyson1, Erik A. Sperling1,†, Alysha M. Heimberg2, Jacques A. Gauthier1, Benjamin L. King3 and Kevin J. Peterson2,* Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, ME 04672, USA *Author for correspondence ([email protected]). Present address: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011