Broad taxon and gene sampling indicate that chaetognaths are protostomes

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Matus, David Q ^a   Copley, Richard R ^b   Dunn, Casey W ^a   Hejnol, Andreas ^a   Eccleston, Heather ^c   Halanych, Kenneth M ^c   Martindale, Mark Q ^a   Telford, Maximilian J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; LETTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; INVERTEBRATES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHAETOGNATHA; PROTOSTOMIA;

EID: 33746533241     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.017     Document Type: Letter

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