Molecular clocks: Defusing the Cambrian 'explosion'?

Current Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Morris, Simon Conway ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAZOA;

PROTEIN; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; TIME;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030990255     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00039-x     Document Type: Article

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