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Research Article

The intron landscape of the mtDNA cytb gene among the Ascomycota: introns and intron-encoded open reading frames

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Pages 1015-1024 | Received 19 Jul 2017, Accepted 08 Nov 2017, Published online: 20 Nov 2017

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