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. 1995 Mar;107(3):679–685. doi: 10.1104/pp.107.3.679

How and Why Do Plants Inactivate Homologous (Trans)genes?

M A Matzke 1, AJM Matzke 1
PMCID: PMC157182  PMID: 12228391

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