Fossil embryos from the Middle and Late Cambrian period of Hunan, south China

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6971, 2004, Pages 237-240

  Dong, Xi Ping ^a   Donoghue, Philip C J ^b   Cheng, Hong ^a   Liu, Jian Bo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY;

EMBRYLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

BIOLOGY;

CAMBRIAN; EMBRYO; FOSSIL;

ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; CHINA; EMBRYOLOGY; FOSSIL; HISTORY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYOLOGY; FOSSILS; HEAD; INVERTEBRATES; PHYLOGENY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUNAN;

ANIMALIA; KINORHYNCHA; LORICIFERA; METAZOA; PRIAPULIDA; SCALIDOPHORA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642512384     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02215     Document Type: Article

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