Biological scaling problems and solutions in amphibians

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Levy, Daniel L ^a   Heald, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OVUM; PLOIDY; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CELL SIZE; GENOME SIZE; OVUM; PLOIDIES; XENOPUS;

EID: 84953215939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019166     Document Type: Article

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