Physiology is rocking the foundations of evolutionary biology

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1235-1243

  Noble, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 84880699689     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2012.071134     Document Type: Article

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