Amphioxus and the utility of molecular genetic data for hypothesizing body part homologies between distantly related animals'

American Zoologist

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 630-640

  Holland, Nicholas D ^a   Holland, Linda Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

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EID: 33746002006     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/39.3.630     Document Type: Article

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