The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7207, 2008, Pages 955-960

  Srivastava, Mansi ^a   Begovic, Emina ^a,b   Chapman, Jarrod ^b   Putnam, Nicholas H ^b,g   Hellsten, Uffe ^b   Kawashima, Takeshi ^a,c   Kuo, Alan ^b   Mitros, Therese ^a   Salamov, Asaf ^b   Carpenter, Meredith L ^a   Signorovitch, Ana Y ^d   Moreno, Maria A ^d   Kamm, Kai ^e   Grimwood, Jane ^f   Schmutz, Jeremy ^f   Shapiro, Harris ^b   Grigoriev, Igor V ^b   Buss, Leo W ^d   Schierwater, Bernd ^d,e   Dellaporta, Stephen L ^d   Rokhsar, Daniel S ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOME; METAZOAN; PHYLOGENY; SIGNALING;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GERM CELL; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTENY; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA; PLACOZOA; TRICHOPLAX; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

EID: 50049092481     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07191     Document Type: Article

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