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Original Articles

Preservation of Nuclear but not Chloroplast DNA in Archaeological Assemblages of Charred Wheat Grains

Monica Banerjee Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK
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Terence A. Brown Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK
Pages 59-63 | Published online: 09 Sep 2010

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