Molecular Dissection of Allometry, Ontogeny, and Plasticity: A Genomic View of Developmental Biology

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1041-1047

  Wu, Rongling ^a,b   Ma, Chang Xing ^a   Lou, Xiang Yang ^a   Casella, George ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allometry; Developmental biology; Genome; Ontogeny; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345016424     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[1041:MDOAOA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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