Algal molecular systematics: A review of the past and prospects for the future

Unravelling the Algae: The Past, Present, and Future of Algal Systematics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 341-354

  Medlin, Linda K ^a   Metfies, Katja ^a   John, Uwe ^a   Olsen, Jeanine L ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1201/9780849379901     Document Type: Chapter

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