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Comp Funct Genomics. 2005 April; 6(3): 159–169.
doi: 10.1002/cfg.469.
PMCID: PMC2447523
Copyright © 2005 Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
Plant Reproductive Genomics at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference
Jim Leebens-Mack,corresponding author1 Douglas E. Soltis,2 and Pamela S. Soltis3
1 Department of Biology and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA,
2 Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA,
3 Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA,
Jim Leebens-Mack, Email: jleebensmack/at/psu.edu.
corresponding authorCorresponding author.
Received January 31, 2005; Accepted February 8, 2005.
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