The Position of Arthropods in the Animal Kingdom: Ecdysozoa, Islands, Trees, and the "Parsimony Ratchet"

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 619-623

  Giribet, Gonzalo ^a   Wheeler, Ward C ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0033258501     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0679     Document Type: Article

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