Images of the genome: From public debates to biology, and back, and forth

Current Themes in Theoretical Biology: A Dutch Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 9-31

  Van Der Weele, Cor ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2904-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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