Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Tyrolean Iceman

@article{Ermini2008CompleteMG,
  title={Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Tyrolean Iceman},
  author={Luca Ermini and Cristina Olivieri and Ermanno Rizzi and Giorgio Corti and Raoul J P Bonnal and Pedro Soares and Stefania Luciani and Isolina Marota and Gianluca De Bellis and Martin B. Richards and Franco Ugo Rollo},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2008},
  volume={18},
  pages={1687-1693}
}
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