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… our ignorance of the pathways from genes to characters is one of the chief obstacles to our understanding of evolutionary trends (Stebbins, 1974, p. 102).
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Sachs, T. (1988). Ontogeny and phylogeny: phytohormones as indicators of labile changes. In: Gottlieb, L.D., Jain, S.K. (eds) Plant Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1207-6_7
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