Divergence time estimates for the early history of animal phyla and the origin of plants, animals and fungi

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1415, 1999, Pages 163-171

  Wang, Daniel Y C ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^a,b   Hedges, S Blair ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambrian explosion; Fungi; Metazoa; Molecular clock; Plants

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PRECAMBRIAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NEMATODE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHORDATA; CNIDARIA; FUNGI; METAZOA; NEMATODA; PORIFERA;

EID: 0033593549     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0617     Document Type: Article

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