Head organization and the head/trunk relationship in protochordates: Problems and prospects

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 620-629

  Lacalli, Thurston C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; HEMICHORDATA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57349101551     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn012     Document Type: Review

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