Chordate origins and evolution

Genesis

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 575-579

  Swalla, Billie J ^a,b   Xavier Neto, José ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID; SCLEROPROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHORDATA; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOSSIL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHORDATA;

EID: 67649360026     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20477     Document Type: Editorial

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