Vasa genes: Emerging roles in the germ line and in multipotent cells

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• Publication year

  2010

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  Bioessays

• Publication date

  2010-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/bies.201000001PMID 20586054PMCID PMC3090673
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