Protochordate body plan and the evolutionary role of larvae: Old controversies resolved?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 216-224

  Lacalli, Thurston C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANCESTOR; BODY PLAN; MOTILE LARVA; WRITINGS;

GENES;

EVOLUTION; VERTEBRATE;

ASCIDIACEA; BILATERIA; CHORDATA; ENTEROPNEUSTA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 21344440753     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z04-162     Document Type: Review

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