Genes and speciation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 114-122

  Wu, Chung I ^a   Ting, Chau Ti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA; ECOLOGY; FISH; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; MATING; MELANOMA; MODEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R GENE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TU GENE; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; XMRK 1 GENE; XMRK 2 GENE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0742271150     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1269     Document Type: Review

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