Giant Deep-Sea Protist Produces Bilaterian-like Traces

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 1849-1854

  Matz, Mikhail V ^a   Frank, Tamara M ^b   Marshall, N Justin ^c   Widder, Edith A ^d   Johnsen, Sönke ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Ocean Research & Conservation Association Inc   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SEA WATER;

AMOEBA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COELENTERATE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; PALEONTOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOON; SEDIMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; CNIDARIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; METAZOA; PENNATULACEA; PROTISTA;

EID: 57049120145     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.028     Document Type: Article

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