Animal phylogeny and the ancestry of bilaterians: Inferences from morphology and 18S rDNA gene sequences

Evolution and Development

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 170-205

  Peterson, Kevin J ^a   Eernisse, Douglas J ^a,b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC LINE; GENETIC RELATIONSHIP; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLTING; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME DNA;

EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; BRACHIOPODA; CHAETOGNATHA; CNIDARIA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); ECDYSOZOA; GNATHOSTOMULIDA; INVERTEBRATA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; METAZOA; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; PLATYHELMINTHES; PROTOSTOMIA;

EID: 0034945410     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2001.003003170.x     Document Type: Article

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