Synteny: Recent advances and future prospects

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-102

  Schmidt, Renate ^a  

^a Max Delbruck Laboratorium der Max Planck Gesellschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIANCE; PLANT GENOME; RICE; SYNTENY;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034096819     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(99)00048-5     Document Type: Review

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