Chromosomes and sex differentiation

Plant Genome Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 167-186

  Janoušek, Bohuslav ^a   Hobza, Roman ^a   Vyskot, Boris ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-1160-4_11     Document Type: Chapter

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