Nucleomorph and plastid genome sequences of the chlorarachniophyte Lotharella oceanica: convergent reductive evolution and frequent recombination in nucleomorph-bearing algae
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Genomics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-2164
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-374