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Tatsunori Ohno1, Takahisa Miyatake

  • 1Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka 111, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.

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|May 4, 2007
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