A half‐century after the molecular clock: new dimensions of molecular evolution
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A half-century after the molecular clock: new dimensions of molecular evolution.
The EMBO workshop on 'Evolution in the Time of Genomics' took place in May 2012 in the magnificent sixteenth century Palazzo Franchetti near Ponte dell'Accademia in Venice. The meeting focused on phenomena that are not part of the traditional narrative of molecular evolution and which might signal a paradigm shift in the field.
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عنوان ژورنال: EMBO reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1469-221X,1469-3178
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.103