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Institute of Cytology and Genetics

research institute in Novosibirsk, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ4201822
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Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Институт цитологии и генетики СО РАН) is a research institute based in Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1957.

Experiments

Fox domestication experiment

Magazines

Vavilov's Journal of Genetics and Breeders

Ateroskleroz

The Siberian Scientific Medical Journal

Monuments and memorials

Monument to the laboratory mouse

Memorial to Dmitriy Belyaev and Domesticated Fox

Gallery

References

External links

Adopt a Pet Fox, for Science's Sake. Live Science.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 4, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4201822. VIAF identifies the subject as 149072820. The Library of Congress control number is n93043205. Authority coordinates are 54.848, 83.107. 1 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from Institute of Cytology and Genetics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.