Proposal for Complete Sequencing of the Genome of a Marsupial: The Gray, Short-tailed Opossum, Monodelphis domestica
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Chris T. Amemiya, Genome Resource Center, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason John M. Greally, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Randy L. Jirtle, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center Eric S. Lander, Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research Robert D. Miller, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico David D. Pollock, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University Paul B. Samollow, Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research Mark S. Springer, Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside Richard K. Wilson, Washington University Genome Sequencing Center
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تاریخ انتشار 2003