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Metadata
- Authors
- Pigliucci, M.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- Published
- 2008-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 75-82
- ISSN
- 1471-0056 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0064
- OpenAlex
- W2131900713
- Cited by
- 585
- References
- 117
- FWCI
- 1.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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