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. 2005 Apr;6(3):159–169. doi: 10.1002/cfg.469

Plant Reproductive Genomics at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference

Jim Leebens-Mack 1,✉, Douglas E Soltis 2, Pamela S Soltis 3
PMCID: PMC2447523  PMID: 18629227

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