Evolutionary exploitation of design options by the first animals with hard skeletons

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5469, 2000, Pages 1239-1242

  Thomas, R D K ^a   Shearman, Rebecca M ^a,b   Stewart, Graham W ^a,c  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; VERTEBRATE;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY GROWTH; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CNIDARIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MOLLUSCA; MORPHOGENESIS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PORIFERA; SKELETON;

EID: 0034686051     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5469.1239     Document Type: Article

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