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AFLP: polymerase chain reaction
PCR: amplified fragment length polymorphism |
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New sequence data
referred to in a manuscript should also be reported with their accession number
assigned in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank sequence data libraries. A manuscript can be
submitted while sequence data is being entered into the data libraries with the
intent of including accession numbers once the manuscript is approved for
publication.
Accession numbers are
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Addresses for the
databases are: DDBJ; EMBL; GenBank.
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