The origin, evolution and proposed stabilization of the terms 'genome size' and 'C-value' to describe nuclear DNA contents.

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Published in Ann Bot on January 01, 2005

Authors

Johann Greilhuber1, Jaroslav Dolezel, Martin A Lysák, Michael D Bennett

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna, Austria. johann.greilhuber@univie.ac.at

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