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Massive Duplication Of Genes May Solve Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery' About Flowering Plants
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By developing new statistical methods to analyze incomplete DNA sequences from thirteen strategically selected plant species, the researchers uncovered a previously hidden "paleopolyploidy" event, an ancient whole-genome duplication that preceded the appearance of the ancestral flowering plant.
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