Concerted evolution of multigene families and homoeologous recombination

Plant Genome Diversity

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 171-193

  Feliner, Gonzalo Nieto ^a   Rosselló, Josep A ^b,c  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Carl Faust Foundation   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-1130-7_12     Document Type: Chapter

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