Early crest animals and the insight they provide into the evolutionary origin of craniates

Genesis

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 623-639

  Chen, Jun Yuan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chordate evolution; Chordate fossils; Cristozoa; Hailouella; Yunnanozoon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EXTINCT SPECIES; GILL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE ORGAN; SKULL; TELENCEPHALON; VERTEBRATE;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHORDATA; FOSSILS;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67649336992     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20445     Document Type: Article

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