A Hitchhiker's Guide to Evolving Networks

Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 363-396

  Kurland, Charles G ^a   Berg, Otto G ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biological network evolution hitchhiker's guide to evolving networks; Nested structural networks; Phagotrophy in early eukaryote descendent of LUCA reductive evolution of descendents of LUCA, archaea and bacteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957199867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470570418.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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