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Using Phylogenetic Analysis to Investigate Eukaryotic Gene Origin
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[Identification of ancestral genes untroducing incongruence between gene and species tree]

K Iu Gorbunov, V A Liubetskiĭ

    Molekuliarnaia Biologiia
    |October 26, 2005
    PubMed

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