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This work has been also funded by the PRIN MIUR fund 2008 to M.C. (2008JZ4MLB) and by the FP7 program ENCITE (contract no. 201842) to G.C.

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Chirico, G., Collini, M., D’Alfonso, L., Caccia, M., Daglio, S.C., Campanini, B. (2011). Green Fluorescent Protein Photodynamics as a Tool for Fluorescence Correlative Studies and Applications. In: Jung, G. (eds) Fluorescent Proteins II. Springer Series on Fluorescence, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/4243_2011_25

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