Interrelationships of the Gastrotricha and their place among the Metazoa inferred from 18S rRNA genes

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 251-259

  Todaro, M Antonio ^a   Telford, Maxlmilian J ^b   Lockyer, Anne E ^c   Littlewood, D Timothy J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CHAETONOTIDA; CYCLIOPHORA; DACTYLOPODOLIDAE; DRACULICITERIA; GASTROTRICHA; GNATHOSTOMULIDA; LEPIDODASYIDAE; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MACRODASYIDA; MACRODASYIDAE; METAZOA; MICROGNATHOZOA; MUSELLIFER; NEODASYS; PAUCITUBULATINA; ROTIFERA; THAUMASTODERMATIDAE; TURBANELLIDAE; URODASYS;

EID: 33745903420     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: 14636409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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