The common ancestry of life

Biology Direct

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Koonin, Eugene V ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS;

EID: 78349261263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-64     Document Type: Article

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