Molecular dating and eucalypts: reply to Ladiges and Udovicic
Mike D. Crisp A C , Lyn G. Cook A and Dorothy A. Steane BA School of Botany and Zoology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
B School of Plant Science and Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Production Forestry, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: mike.crisp@anu.edu.au
Australian Systematic Botany 18(3) 295-296 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB05007
Submitted: 29 March 2005 Accepted: 9 May 2005 Published: 30 June 2005
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