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EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS OF GENOME SIZE AND CHROMOSOME NUMBER VARIATION IN BEGONIACEAE

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Campos-Dominguez, Lucia, Pellicer, Jaume, Matthews, Andrew, Leitch, Ilia J, Kidner, Catherine A (2022): EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS OF GENOME SIZE AND CHROMOSOME NUMBER VARIATION IN BEGONIACEAE. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1876): 1-28, DOI: 10.24823/EJB.2022.1876, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2022.1876

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