From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5711, 2005, Pages 872-875

  Dunningham, Jacob ^a   Rau, Alexander ^a   Burnett, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; NATURAL SCIENCES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

PEDIGREE CATS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ATOM; BREEDING; CAT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PEDIGREE; PHYSICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW;

FELIS CATUS;

EID: 13644263590     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109545     Document Type: Review

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24. This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Royal Society and Wolfson Foundation.