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David Enard1, Le Cai1, Carina Gwennap1

  • 1Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.

Elife
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PubMed

Keywords:
adaptive evolutioncomputational biologyevolutionary biologygenomicshost/pathogen interactionshumanhuman evolutionmammalssystems biologyviruses

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