Distribution of the Tnt1 retrotransposon family in the amphidiploid tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ) and its wild Nicotiana relatives
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Present addresses: †Ecologie Microbienne, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,F-69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France; ‡Systématique, Adaptation, Evolution, Equipe: Génétique et Evolution, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France; §Unité de Recherches en Génomique Végétale (URGVINRA), 91057 Evry Cedex, France. Biological relevance of polyploidy: ecology to genomics Edited by A. R. Leitch, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, I. J. Leitch and J. C. Pires
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