Recombination, heteroplasmy, haplotype polymorphism, and paralogy in plastid genes: Implications for plant molecular systematics

Systematic Botany

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1011-1020

  Wolfe, Andrea D ^a   Randle, Christopher P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 8844267682     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/0363644042451008     Document Type: Review

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