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Conversion of diploidy to haploidy

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Figure 1: Outline of the conversion approach.

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Yan, H., Papadopoulos, N., Marra, G. et al. Conversion of diploidy to haploidy. Nature 403, 723–724 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35001659

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