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+see isa.investigation.xlsx for details
+Adapted from:
+Zihao Zhu, Marcel Quint, Muhammad Usman Anwer, Arabidopsis EARLY FLOWERING 3 controls temperature responsiveness of the circadian clock independently of the evening complex, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 73, Issue 3, 27 January 2022, Pages 1049–1061, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab473