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The sociable gene
Author(s) -
Turney Jon
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/sj.embor.7400521
Subject(s) - decipher , irony , context (archaeology) , metaphor , biology , genetics , organism , genome , function (biology) , faith , gene , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , paleontology
Finding a working metaphor to describe the function of genes in an organism might help to ease public fears and expectations of genomic research