Genetic analysis of coenzyme Q biosynthesis

Coenzyme Q: Molecular Mechanisms in Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 185-208

  Jonassen, Tanya ^a   Clarke, Catherine F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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