Holocentric chromosomes

Plant Genome Diversity Volume 2: Physical Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Plant Genomes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 187-208

  Bureš, Petr ^a   Zedek, František ^a   Marková, Michaela ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-1160-4_12     Document Type: Chapter

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