The Genome of Paramecium caudatum: Analysis by Means of Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1413-1420

  Potekhin, A A ^a   Rautian, M S ^a   Brigge, T ^b  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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