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Thomas M Chappell1, Mark D Rausher2

  • 1Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 tmchappe@ncsu.edu.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|April 27, 2016
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Keywords:
ColeosporiumIpomoeaevolutionhost rangemetapopulation

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