Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7115, 2006, Pages 85-88

  Bourlat, Sarah J ^a   Juliusdottir, Thorhildur ^b   Lowe, Christopher J ^c   Freeman, Robert ^d   Aronowicz, Jochanan ^c   Kirschner, Mark ^e   Lander, Eric S ^d,f   Thorndyke, Michael ^g   Nakano, Hiroaki ^g   Kohn, Andrea B ^h   Heyland, Andreas ^h   Moroz, Leonid L ^h   Copley, Richard R ^b   Telford, Maximilian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^g ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; GENES;

DEUTEROSTOME PHYLOGENY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; XENOTURBELLA;

BIODIVERSITY;

GENOME; INVERTEBRATE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEW GENUS; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; CLADISTICS; ECHINODERM; GENOME; INVERTEBRATE; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STARFISH; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE; XENOTURBELLA;

ASTEROIDEA; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; HEMICHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA; XENOTURBELLA; XENOTURBELLIDA;

EID: 33750585486     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05241     Document Type: Article

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