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Another important plant undergoing genomic analysis is amborella.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Victor Albert, a biologist at the University at Buffalo, says amborella doesn't look all that important.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Soltis says what makes amborella so interesting is that it turned out to be a genetic dead end, like the platypus - a relative of all mammals but ancestor of none.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Another New Caledonian rarity propagated here but not on display is amborella, the closest living relative of the common ancestor of all flowering plants.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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