Correction to: Breaking evolutionary and pleiotropic constraints in mammals: on sloths, manatees and homeotic mutations (EvoDevo, (2011), 2, 1, (11), 10.1186/2041-9139-2-11);Breaking evolutionary and pleiotropic constraints in mammals: On sloths, manatees and homeotic mutations

EvoDevo

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Varela Lasheras, Irma ^a   Bakker, Alexander J ^a   van der Mije, Steven D ^a   Metz, Johan A J ^b   van Alphen, Joris ^a   Galis, Frietson ^a,c  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; MUS; SLOTHS; TRICHECHIDAE;

EID: 84856395469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20419139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13227-021-00183-0     Document Type: Erratum

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