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Natural Occurrence of Thymine and Three Methylated Adenine Bases in Several Ribonucleic Acids

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  1. J. W. LITTLEFIELD: Scholar in Cancer Research of the American Cancer Society; on leave from the John Collins Warren Laboratories of the Huntington Memorial Hospital of Harvard University at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

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LITTLEFIELD, J., DUNN, D. Natural Occurrence of Thymine and Three Methylated Adenine Bases in Several Ribonucleic Acids. Nature 181, 254–255 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181254a0

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