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Research Article

Mitotic Gene Conversion Lengths, Coconversion Patterns, and the Incidence of Reciprocal Recombination in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Plasmid System

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Pages 3685-3693 | Received 22 Apr 1986, Accepted 17 Jul 1986, Published online: 31 Mar 2023

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