Implications of cnidarian gene expression patterns for the origins of bilateralityis the glass half full or half empty

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 701-711

  Ball, Eldon E ^a   De Jong, Danielle M ^a,b   Schierwater, Bernd ^c   Shinzato, Chuya ^b   Hayward, David C ^a   Miller, David J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ITZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; METAZOA;

EID: 35448934897     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm028     Document Type: Review

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