Opinion: The choice of model organisms in evo-devo

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 311-319

  Jenner, Ronald A ^a   Wills, Matthew A ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE INDUCTION; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33947309366     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2062     Document Type: Review

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