The phenogenetic logic of life

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-45

  Weiss, Kenneth M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GAP JUNCTION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE; MERISTEM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; LOGIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 10644291744     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1502     Document Type: Review

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