Genetic Code: What Nature Missed

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Cavalcanti, Andre R O ^a   Landweber, Laura F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0242709314     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.10.052     Document Type: Review

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