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Caption: Figure 1.
Stellar mass evolution of the studied galaxy as a function of redshift. An intense phase of mergers takes place between z = 5 and z = 3. The subsequent evolution is much smoother, dominated by diffuse gas infall: the most important merger of this second phase takes place at z = 0.8 with a mass ratio of 6:1.
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