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Genetic and epigenetic factors controlling female sterility in Neurospora crassa
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Genetic and epigenetic factors controlling female sterility in Neurospora crassa

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Fitzgerald, P. Genetic and epigenetic factors controlling female sterility in Neurospora crassa. Heredity 18, 47–62 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1963.4

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