The Position of Arthropods in the Animal Kingdom: A Search for a Reliable Outgroup for Internal Arthropod Phylogeny

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 481-488

  Giribet, Gonzalo ^a   Ribera, Carles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLTING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

EID: 0032088704     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1998.0494     Document Type: Article

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