Key characters uniting hemichordates and chordates: Homologies or homoplasies?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 8-23

  Ruppert, Edward E ^a,b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BONE; CELLS; GENES; MORPHOLOGY;

DORSAL HOLLOW NERVE CORD; GILL SLITS; HEMICHORDATES; HOMOLGIES;

NEUROLOGY;

HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

CEPHALOCHORDATA; CEPHALODISCUS; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ENTEROPNEUSTA; HEMICHORDATA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 21344462368     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z04-158     Document Type: Review

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