Origin of the metazoan phyla: Molecular clocks confirm paleontological estimates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 606-611

  Ayala, Francisco José ^a   Rzhetsky, Andrey ^b   Ayala, Francisco J ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELID WORM; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; ECHINODERM; FOSSIL; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; CHORDATA; ECHINODERMATA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031930042     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.2.606     Document Type: Article

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