The cooperative genome: Organisms as social contracts

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 753-763

  Weiss, Kenneth M ^a   Buchanan, Anne V ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Developmental genetics; Evolution; Patterning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 69449089164     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.072497kw     Document Type: Review

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