Frail hypotheses in evolutionary biology

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Ninio, Jacques ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 78049441051     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001067     Document Type: Review

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