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The path to a PhD

How I fell in love with plants on the way to a PhD.

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  1. Mhairi Dupré is a first-year PhD student in evolutionary developmental biology at the University of Oxford, UK

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Dupré, M. The path to a PhD. Nature 444, 240 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7116-240c

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