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Behura, S.K., Valicente, F.H., Rider, D.S., Chen, M., Jackson, S., Stuart, J.J. 2004. A physically anchored genetic map and linkage to avirulence reveals recombination suppression over the proximal region of hessian fly chromosome a2. Genetics. 167:343-355
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