Buffering and the evolution of chromosome-wide gene regulation
β Scribed by Per Stenberg; Jan Larsson
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 486 KB
- Volume
- 120
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-5915
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