The calculation of information and organismal complexity

Biology Direct

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jiang, Yun ^a   Xu, Cunshuan ^a  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS;

EID: 77957730193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-59     Document Type: Article

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