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Gene duplication and speciation in Drosophila: evidence from the Odysseus locus

Chau-Ti Ting1, Shun-Chern Tsaur, Sha Sun

  • 1Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan. ctting@life.nthu.edu.tw

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|August 12, 2004
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