Testing hypotheses without considering predictions [3]

BioEssays

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 500-503

  Dagan, Tal ^a   Martin, William ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PROKARYOTE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

ANIMALS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 34248593482     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20566     Document Type: Letter

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