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. 2016 Feb 9;113(6):E666.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1522213113. Epub 2016 Jan 25.

Mitochondria, complexity, and evolutionary deficit spending

Nick Lane  1 , William F Martin  2
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Mitochondria, complexity, and evolutionary deficit spending

Nick Lane et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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