Letter to the EditorAvian beta-defensin nomenclature: A community proposed update
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Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge the following funding sources: Genome BC (D.J.L. and F.S.L.B.), the Irish Department of Agriculture (C.O.F. and A.T.L.) and the BBSRC (P.K. and A.S.).
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