The Ecdysozoa: Artifact or monophylum?

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 211-223

  Wägele, J Wolfgang ^a   Erikson, Torsten ^a,b   Lockhart, Peter ^a,c   Misof, Bernd ^a,d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Box 50017   (Sweden)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d Inst für Angewandte Zoologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Annelida; Arthropoda; Articulata; Cladistics; Cycloneuralia; Ecdysozoa; Evolution; Functional morphology; Molecular systematics; Nemathelminthes; Phylogenetic signal; Spectral analysis of supporting positions

Indexed keywords

ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; ECDYSOZOA; RASA;

EID: 0003033837     PISSN: 09475745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1999.tb00985.x     Document Type: Article

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