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Published online 15 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030414-3
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Great Wall blocks gene flow
Chinese landmark has driven plants apart.
The Great Wall of China, built to hinder marauding tribes, hampers the flow of plant genes too. Members of the same species growing on either side are genetically different, a new study of the Juyong Guan region has found.
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