Functional Genomics Requires Ecology

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue , 2006, Pages 173-215

  Carroll, Lara S ^a   Potts, Wayne K ^b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 33751373068     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(06)36004-4     Document Type: Review

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