Picking Up the Ball at the K/Pg Boundary: The Distribution of Ancient Polyploidies in the Plant Phylogenetic Tree As a Spandrel of Asexuality with Occasional Sex

Overview

Journal Plant Cell

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Biology
Cell Biology

Date 2017 Feb 19

PMID 28213362

Citations 14

Authors

Michael Freeling

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