Concatenated analysis sheds light on early metazoan evolution and fuels a modern "urmetazoon" hypothesis

PLoS Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b,c   Eitel, Michael ^a   Jakob, Wolfgang ^a   Osigus, Hans Jürgen ^a   Hadrys, Heike ^a   Dellaporta, Stephen L ^b   Kolokotronis, Sergios Orestis ^c   DeSalle, Rob ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCATENATED DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HOX GENE; METAZOON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PLACULA; PRIMITIVE STREAK; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACOZOA;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; PLACOZOA; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 58849142045     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000020     Document Type: Article

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