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pBluescriptII: multifunctional cloning and mapping vectors.

M A Alting-Mees·J A Sorge·J M Short
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M A Alting-Mees, J A Sorge, J M Short. 1992. pBluescriptII: multifunctional cloning and mapping vectors.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0076-6879(92)16044-k

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