The origin of metazoa and the main evolutionary lineages of the animal kingdom: The gallertoid hypothesis in the light of modern research

Senckenbergiana Lethaea

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 295-314

  Grasshoff, Manfred ^a   Gudo, Michael ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateria; Coelenterata; Coelomata; Ctenophora; Engineering morphology; Evolution; Gallertoid; Gastroneuralia; Notoneuralia; Porifera; Trichoplax

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; COELENTERATA; COELOMATA; FUNGI; METAZOA; PORIFERA; TRICHOPLAX;

EID: 0036057168     PISSN: 00372110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03043790     Document Type: Article

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