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Väinölä, R., Johannesson, K. (2017). Genetic diversity and evolution. In: Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, P., Schubert, H., Radziejewska, T. (eds) Biological Oceanography of the Baltic Sea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0668-2_6

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