Epistasis and pleiotropy as natural properties of transcriptional regulation

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 58-89

  Gibson, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0030087518     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1996.0003     Document Type: Article

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