Two empires or three?

1998/08/18 by Ernst Mayr · 4 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · #Biology #Chemistry #Computational biology #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Plant Diversity and Evolution

paper · doi:10.1073/pnas.95.17.9720

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Abstract

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