Thinking Outside the HOX

Biological Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 128-129

  Niklas, Karl J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyeless Gene; Molecular Developmental Biology; Phenotypic Evolution; Phyletic Distance; Transcriptional Repression Domain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892614501     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2006.1.2.128     Document Type: Article

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