Through a glass, clearly: Experimental evolution as a window on adaptive genome evolution

Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 372-407

  Rosenzweig, Frank ^a   Sherlock, Gavin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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