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Retroviruses push the envelope for mammalian placentation

Harmit Singh Malik
PNAS February 14, 2012 109 (7) 2184-2185; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1121365109
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vol. 109 no. 7 2184-2185
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1121365109
PubMed: 
22308481

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue February 14, 2012.
  • Published first January 26, 2012.

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Author Information

  1. Harmit Singh Malik1
  1. Basic Sciences Division and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109

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  • ↵1E-mail: hsmalik{at}fhcrc.org.
  • Author contributions: H.S.M. wrote the paper.

  • The author declares no conflict of interest.

  • See companion article on pages E432 and 2206.

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