Evolution game: Which came first, the receptor or the ligand?

Invertebrate Survival Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-54

  Mandrioli, M ^a   Malagoli, D ^a   Ottaviani, Enzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytokine receptors; Cytokines; Ligand receptor evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 55749109585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1824307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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