Seed size increase as a marker of domestication in squash (Cucurbita pepo)

Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 25-31

  Smith, Bruce D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

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