Roles of natural history collections

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 536-545

  Lane, Meredith A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

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ARANEAE; AVES; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0030318351     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2399994     Document Type: Article

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