Evolutionary biology of centipedes (myriapoda: chilopoda)

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2007, Pages 151-170

  Edgecombe, Gregory D ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod phylogeny; Biogeography; Evodevo

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; PREDATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; MYRIAPODA;

EID: 33846376591     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091326     Document Type: Review

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