Key transitions in animal evolution

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 667-669

  DeSalle, Rob ^a   Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35449001198     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm042     Document Type: Article

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