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Original Articles

Taxonomy, slime molds, and the questions we ask

Andrew R. Swanson
,
Frederick W. Spiegel Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
&
James C. Cavender Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701
Pages 968-979 | Accepted 22 May 2002, Published online: 31 Jan 2017

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