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Red-shifted fluorescence from polyguanylic acid in aqueous solution at room temperature. / Kononov, A. I.; Bakulev, V. M.

In: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Vol. 34, No. 2-3, 01.01.1996, p. 211-216.

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Kononov, A. I. ; Bakulev, V. M. / Red-shifted fluorescence from polyguanylic acid in aqueous solution at room temperature. In: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology. 1996 ; Vol. 34, No. 2-3. pp. 211-216.

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