The big, the bad and the ugly: Extreme animals as inspiration for biomedical research

EMBO Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 771-776

  De Magalhães, João Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOWHEAD WHALE; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FRUIT FLY MODEL; GENOME; HETEROCEPHALUS; HORSESHOE CRAB; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TISSUE REGENERATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CETACEA; EXOTIC ANIMAL; MOLE RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, EXOTIC; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLE RATS; WHALES;

EID: 84934808585     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201540606     Document Type: Article

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