Opening Darwin's black box: Teaching evolution through developmental genetics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 735-741

  Gilbert, Scott F ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EVOLUTION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETICS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0042380009     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1159     Document Type: Review

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