A powerful toolkit for synthetic biology: Over 3.8 billion years of evolution

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 304-313

  Rothschild, Lynn J ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Constraints on evolution; Evolution; Evolutionary mechanism; Exobiology; Origin of novelty; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGY; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; LIFE; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION;

EID: 77950419760     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900180     Document Type: Review

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