Tunicate tails, stolons, and the origin of the vertebrate trunk

Biological Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-198

  Lacalli, Thurston C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chordate body plan; Tunicate phylogeny; Vertebrate origins

Indexed keywords

CHORDATA; EAR; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; REVIEW; TAIL; TRUNK; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; PHYLOGENY; TAIL; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

ASCIDIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; SALPIDA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032958229     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00185.x     Document Type: Article

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