What is "homology thinking" and what is it for?

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-8

  Wagner, Günter P ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84949996624     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22656     Document Type: Article

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