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. 2016 Mar 22;113(12):3136-8.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601785113. Epub 2016 Mar 10.

Transcriptional errors and the drift barrier

David M McCandlish  1 , Joshua B Plotkin  2
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Transcriptional errors and the drift barrier

David M McCandlish et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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