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Developmental changes in the ultrastructure of the Sauromatum guttatum (Araceae) mitochondria

H Skubatz1, D D Kunkel

  • 1Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA. skubatch@u.washington.edu

Journal of Electron Microscopy
|March 29, 2001
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