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Structural and functional genes, and highly repetitive sequences commonly used in the phylogeny and species concept of the phylum Cyanobacteria
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- 1. Department of Biotechnology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran (Iran) bahareh.nowruzi@srbiau.ac.ir (corresponding author)
- 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Trnava (Slovakia)
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Nowruzi, Bahareh, Hutarova, Lenka (2023): Structural and functional genes, and highly repetitive sequences commonly used in the phylogeny and species concept of the phylum Cyanobacteria. Cryptogamie, Algologie 20 (3): 59-84, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2023v44a3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.2
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