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Microsatellites at a common site in the second ORF of L1 elements in mammalian genomes

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  1. Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, B3H 4J1, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    A. J. Duffy, D. W. Coltman & J. M. Wright

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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to GenBank and have been assigned the accession number U33120.

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Duffy, A.J., Coltman, D.W. & Wright, J.M. Microsatellites at a common site in the second ORF of L1 elements in mammalian genomes. Mammalian Genome 7, 386–387 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900111

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