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Nelson JO and Metzstein MM (2018) Reactivation assay to identify direct targets of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway in Drosophila. Methods in Molecular Biology 1720, 205-211. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7540-2_15
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