My favorite animal, Trichoplax adhaerens

BioEssays

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1294-1302

  Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c ITZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA;

BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENOME; HOX GENE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INVERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; TRICHOPLAX; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

EID: 30444450767     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20320     Document Type: Review

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