Published in Trends Genet on November 01, 2007
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Micro-evolutionary divergence patterns of mandible shapes in wild house mouse (Mus musculus) populations. BMC Evol Biol (2011) 1.00
The role of the segmentation gene hairy in Tribolium. Dev Genes Evol (2008) 0.99
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A comparative assessment of mandible shape in a consomic strain panel of the house mouse (Mus musculus)--implications for epistasis and evolvability of quantitative traits. BMC Evol Biol (2011) 0.96
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Prospero and Snail expression during spider neurogenesis. Dev Genes Evol (2003) 0.84
her1 and her13.2 are jointly required for somitic border specification along the entire axis of the fish embryo. Dev Biol (2006) 0.84
Separable stripe enhancer elements for the pair-rule gene hairy in the beetle Tribolium. EMBO Rep (2004) 0.84
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Exploring the effects of gene dosage on mandible shape in mice as a model for studying the genetic basis of natural variation. Dev Genes Evol (2013) 0.83
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