Gnathostomulida - An Enigmatic Metazoan Phylum from both Morphological and Molecular Perspectives

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-79

  Littlewood, D Timothy J ^a,b   Telford, Maximilian J ^a   Clough, Karen A ^a   Rohde, Klaus ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ACANTHOCEPHALUS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEMATODE; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; ROTIFERA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACANTHOCEPHALA; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; ROTIFERA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031989829     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1997.0448     Document Type: Article

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