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Main Authors: Alexander Slobodkin, Sergey Gavrilov, Victor Ionov, Vyacheslav Iliyin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4494708?pdf=render