The grand game of metazoan phylogeny: Rules and strategies

Biological Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-142

  Jenner, Ronald A ^a   Sghram, Frederick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animalia; Articulata; Cladistics; Eutrochozoa; Evolution; Metazoa; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039442202     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00183.x     Document Type: Article

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