Transposons Ac/Ds, En/Spm and their relatives in maize

Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 251-276

  Zhang, Jianbo ^a   Peterson, Thomas ^a   Peterson, Peter A ^a  

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