Toward an understanding of evolutionary potential

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-6

  Hall, Barry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA shuffling; Evolutionary potential; Novel gene function

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032780511     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00292-X     Document Type: Article

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