Xenoturbellida: The fourth deuterostome phylum and the diet of worms

Genesis

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 580-586

  Telford, Maximilian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulacraria; Deuterostome; Evolution; Phylogeny; Xenambulacraria; Xenoturbella; Xenoturbellida

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CHORDATA; DNA DETERMINATION; ECHINODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBELLARIA; WORM; XENOTURBELLIDA;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLLUSCA; PHYLOGENY;

ACOELOMORPHA; BIVALVIA; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; HEMICHORDATA; MOLLUSCA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS; XENOTURBELLA; XENOTURBELLA BOCKI; XENOTURBELLIDA;

EID: 67649371217     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20414     Document Type: Article

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