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Highly repeated DNA sequence limited to knob heterochromatin in maize

W J Peacock1, E S Dennis, M M Rhoades

  • 1Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, P.O. Box 1600, Canberra City, ACT, Australia.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|July 1, 1981
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