Modelling developmental instability as the joint action of noise and stability: A Bayesian approach

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Van Dongen, Stefan ^a   Lens, Luc ^b  

^a JANSSEN RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 2942534490     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-2-11     Document Type: Article

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