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The captured launch of a ballistospore

Anne Pringle Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138Correspondence[email protected]
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Sheila N. Patek Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140
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Mark Fischer Department of Chemistry and Physical Science, College of Mount St Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio 45233-1670
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Jessica Stolze
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Nicholas P. Money Department of Botany, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056
Pages 866-871 | Accepted 12 Jul 2005, Published online: 27 Jan 2017

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