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Evolutionary Homology

Evolutionary Homology is a biological concept referring to the similarity in structure, function, or genetic sequence between different species that results from their common ancestry, distinguishing it from analogous traits arising through convergent evolution.

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Homology: the hierarchical basis of comparative biology

Choice Reviews Online · 1994 · 603 citations

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Homologues of a single resistance‐gene cluster in potato confer resistance to distinct pathogens: a virus and a nematode

E.A.G. van der Vossen, J.N.A.M. Rouppe van der Voort, Abdelhafid Bendahmane et al. · The Plant Journal · 2000 · 354 citations

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An improved method of testing for evolutionary homology

Walter M. Fitch · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1966 · 313 citations

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II.—<i>On the use of the term homology in modern zoology, and the distinction between homogenetic and homoplastic agreements</i>

E. Ray Lankester · Annals and Magazine of Natural History · 1870 · 266 citations · Full text

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Different genetic pathways in the evolution of invasive breast cancer are associated with distinct morphological subtypes

Horst Buerger, Friedrich Otterbach, Ronald Simon et al. · The Journal of Pathology · 1999 · 256 citations

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Authors

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  1. WE
    William E. Friedman

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    5 publications · 209 citations

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  2. AM
    Adriana M. Candela

    Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

    2 publications · 66 citations

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  3. LN
    L. Nicholas Ornston

    Yale University, United States

    2 publications · 90 citations

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  4. LO
    Lennart Olsson

    Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

    2 publications · 34 citations

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  5. MJ
    María José Truco

    University of California, Davis, United States

    2 publications · 110 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    358 citations

  2. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    201 citations

  3. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    129 citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    130 citations

  5. University of Georgia

    Athens, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    134 citations

  6. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    645 citations

  7. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    270 citations

  8. Field Museum of Natural History

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    289 citations

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  1. Journal of Biological Chemistry

    JBC · 5 publications · 355 citations

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  2. Nucleic Acids Research

    3 publications · 130 citations

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  3. Theory in Biosciences

    3 publications · 78 citations

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  4. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

    3 publications · 189 citations

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  5. Science

    3 publications · 249 citations

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