Xenoturbella is a deuterostome that eats molluscs

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6951, 2003, Pages 925-928

  Bourlat, Sarah J ^a   Nielsen, Claus ^b   Lockyer, Anne E ^c   Littlewood, D Timothy J ^c   Telford, Maximilian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MARINE BIOLOGY;

MOLLUSCS;

BIODIVERSITY;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RIBOSOME DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; DEUTEROSTOME; ECHINODERM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORM; XENOTURBELLA; XENOTURBELLA BOCKI;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DIET; ECHINODERMATA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

ACOELOMORPHA; BILATERIA; BIVALVIA; ECHINODERMATA; HEMICHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS; TURBELLARIA; XENOTURBELLA; XENOTURBELLA BOCKI;

EID: 0041858041     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01851     Document Type: Article

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