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  • Is ModernBiology MolecularBiology?
  • Rivers Singleton Jr.
Rivers Singleton Jr.
Department of Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716

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The author thanks the University of Delaware General University Research fund for financial support.

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