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A Comparative Analysis of Whole Plastid Genomes from the Apiales: Expansion and Contraction of the Inverted Repeat, Mitochondrial to Plastid Transfer of DNA, and Identification of Highly Divergent Noncoding Regions

  • 1. Author for correspondence (sdownie@life.illinois.edu)
  • 2. Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, U. S. A.

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Downie, Stephen R., Jansen, Robert K. (2015): A Comparative Analysis of Whole Plastid Genomes from the Apiales: Expansion and Contraction of the Inverted Repeat, Mitochondrial to Plastid Transfer of DNA, and Identification of Highly Divergent Noncoding Regions. Systematic Botany (Basel, Switzerland) 40 (1): 336-351, DOI: 10.1600/036364415X686620, URL: https://doi.org/10.1600/036364415x686620

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