The origins of multicellularity and the early history of the genetic toolkit for animal development.

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Published in Annu Rev Genet on January 01, 2008

Authors

Antonis Rokas1

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1: Vanderbilt University, Department of Biological Sciences, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA. antonis.rokas@vanderbilt.edu

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