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. 2011 Sep;12(5):377-8.
doi: 10.1093/bib/bbr058.

Obituary: Walter Fitch and the orthology paradigm

Eugene V Koonin

Obituary: Walter Fitch and the orthology paradigm

Eugene V Koonin. Brief Bioinform. 2011 Sep.
No abstract available

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Cumulative dynamics of the citation of Fitch's 1970 article. The citation data were from the ISI Web of Science (http://apps.isiknowledge.com).
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
The usage of the term ‘ortholog’ in the title or abstract of scientific publications. The usage data were from PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/).
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References

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Publication types

Personal name as subject