To be or not to be a flatworm: The Acoel controversy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Egger, Bernhard ^a   Steinke, Dirk ^b   Tarui, Hiroshi ^c   De Mulder, Katrien ^d   Arendt, Detlev ^e   Borgonie, Gaëtan ^d   Funayama, Noriko ^h   Gschwentner, Robert ^a   Hartenstein, Volker ^f   Hobmayer, Bert ^a   Hooge, Matthew ^g   Hrouda, Martina ^h   Ishida, Sachiko ⁱ   Kobayashi, Chiyoko ^c,j   Kuales, Georg ^a   Nishimura, Osamu ^c   Pfister, Daniela ^a   Rieger, Reinhard ^a   Salvenmoser, Willi ^a   Smith III, Julian ^k   Technau, Ulrich ^l   Tyler, Seth ^g   Agata, Kiyokazu ^h   Salzburger, Walter ^m   Ladurner, Peter ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^h KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIWI PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL RENEWAL; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS CELL; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEM CELL; SYNAPOMORPHY; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ACOELA; ACOELOMORPHA; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CATENULIDA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 65549158139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005502     Document Type: Article

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