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Author Correction: Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales
Ilaine Silveira Matos1,2, Bradley Vu3, Joseph Mann3
1Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. ilaine.matos@gmail.com.
Nature Plants
|July 11, 2025
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