Written in stone: Fossils, genes and evo-devo

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 911-920

  Raff, Rudolf A ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES; GENETICS, POPULATION; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 36248998119     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2225     Document Type: Review

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