Molecular phylogeny of brachiopods and phoronids based on nuclear-encoded small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1378, 1998, Pages 2039-2061

  Cohen, Bernard L ^a   Gawthrop, Angela ^a   Cavalier Smith, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brachiopod; Lophophorate; Lophotrochozoa; Molecular phylogeny; Phoronid; SSU rDNA

Indexed keywords

GENE SEQUENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE;

ACANTHOPLEURA; BRACHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; CHIMAERA; CHITON; ECDYSOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MEGATHYRIDAE; PHORONIDAE; PHORONIFORMEA; POLYPLACOPHORA; RHYNCHONELLIDAE;

EID: 0032578991     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0351     Document Type: Article

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