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All issues Volume 34 / No 2 (March-April 2002) Genet. Sel. Evol., 34 2 (2002) 221-232 References
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Genet. Sel. Evol.
Volume 34, Number 2, March-April 2002
Page(s) 221 - 232
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/gse:2002005

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