Vertebrate genomics: More fishy tales about Hox genes

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Meyer, Axel ^a   Málaga Trillo, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME DUPLICATION; HOX GENE;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033602459     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80131-6     Document Type: Note

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