Unleashing the force of cladistics? Metazoan phylogenetics and hypothesis testing

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 207-218

  Jenner, Ronald A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; MYZOSTOMIDA; SPIRALIA;

EID: 0042703586     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/43.1.207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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