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Finding a (pine) needle in a haystack: chloroplast genome sequence divergence in rare and widespread pines.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2010
Whittall J B, Syring J, Parks M, Buenrostro J, Dick C, Liston A, Cronn R
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Critical to conservation efforts and other investigations at low taxonomic levels, DNA sequence data offer important insights into the distinctiveness, biogeographic partitioning and evolutionary histories of species. The resolving power of DNA sequences is often limited by insufficient variability at the intraspecific level. This is particularly true of studies involving plant organelles, as the conservative...
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