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Population Genetics

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Progress in Botany

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This contribution is concerned with three topics in population biology: sexual selection, the evolution of sex, and population structure and gene flow.

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  1. Biologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, D-7400, Tübingen 1, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Klaus Wöhrmann

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  1. Zellenlehre, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, D-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    H.-Dietmar Behnke

  2. Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Botanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Postfach 102148, D-4630, Bochum 1, Germany

    Karl Esser

  3. Institut für Allgemeine Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Universität Hamburg, Ohnhorststraße 18, D-2000, Hamburg 52, Germany

    Klaus Kubitzki

  4. Lehrstuhl für Geobotanik, Systematisch-Geobotanisches Institut der Universität Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, D-3400, Göttingen, Germany

    Michael Runge

  5. Institut für Botanik und Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, D-8000, München 2, Germany

    Hubert Ziegler

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Wöhrmann, K. (1989). Population Genetics. In: Behnke, HD., Esser, K., Kubitzki, K., Runge, M., Ziegler, H. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75154-7_16

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