The new view of animal phylogeny

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2004, Pages 229-256

  Halanych, Kenneth M ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambrian explosion; Deuterostomia; Ecdysozoa; Lophotrochozoa; Metazoa

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY;

ACOELOMORPHA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; BRACHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS DROSOPHILAE; CHORDATA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECDYSOZOA; ECHINODERMATA; ENTOPROCTA; GASTROTRICHA; GNATHOSTOMULIDA; HEMICHORDATA; KINORHYNCHA; LOPHOPHORA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; METAZOA; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; NEMERTEA; PHORONIFORMEA; PLACOZOA; PLATYHELMINTHES; PRIAPULIDAE; SIPUNCULIDA; TARDIGRADA; XENOTURBELLA;

EID: 3242690862     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.35.112202.130124     Document Type: Review

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