Chance and necessity in eye evolution

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1053-1066

  Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chance; Eye evolution; Jacques Monod; Necessity

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EYE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84856185313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr061     Document Type: Article

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