Animal evolution - The end of the intermediate taxa?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 104-108

  Adoutte, André ^a   Balavoine, Guillaume ^a   Lartillot, Nicolas ^a   De Rosa, Renaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CESTODE; COELENTERATE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM LAYER; METAZOON; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION;

EID: 0033056745     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(98)01671-0     Document Type: Review

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