The evolutionary origin of flatfish asymmetry

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7201, 2008, Pages 209-212

  Friedman, Matt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ASYMMETRY; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; FLATFISH; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; SPECIALIZATION;

ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXTINCT SPECIES; EYE; FLATFISH; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; VERTEBRATE;

PISCES; PLEURONECTES; PLEURONECTIFORMES; SCOPHTHALMIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 47049083223     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07108     Document Type: Article

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