The incidence of polyploidy in natural plant populations: Major patterns and evolutionary processes

Plant Genome Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 255-276

  Husband, Brian C ^a   Baldwin, Sarah J ^a   Suda, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-1160-4_16     Document Type: Chapter

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