linking big: The continuing promise of evolutionary synthesis

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 871-880

  Sidlauskas, Brian ^a,b   Ganapathy, Ganeshkumar ^a   Hazkani Covo, Einat ^a,c   Jenkins, Kristin P ^a   Lapp, Hilmar ^a   McCall, Lauren W ^a   Price, Samantha ^a,d   Scherle, Ryan ^a   Spaeth, Paula A ^a,e   Kidd, David M ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTHLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data sharing; Education; Informatics; Interdisciplinary; Ontology; Scientific culture; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; DATA PROCESSING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INFORMATICS; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CULTURE; EVOLUTION; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77955007716     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00892.x     Document Type: Article

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