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Edited by Tom C. Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and approved March 27, 2015 (received for review January 13, 2015)
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- Published in issue June 2, 2015.
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- Sven Deutschländer,
- Patrick Dillmann,
- Georg Maret, and
- Peter Keim1
Edited by Tom C. Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and approved March 27, 2015 (received for review January 13, 2015)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: peter.keim{at}uni-konstanz.de.
Author contributions: P.K. designed research; S.D. and P.K. performed research; P.D. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; S.D. analyzed data; and S.D., G.M., and P.K. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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