It's a long way from amphioxus: Descendants of the earliest chordate

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 665-675

  Garcia Fernàndez, Jordi ^a   Benito Gutiérrez, Èlia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Chordates; Evo Devo; Living fossil; Model system; Prototype

Indexed keywords

AMPHIOXUS; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENOME; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNTENY;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENOME; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SYNTENY;

EID: 67650116183     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200800110     Document Type: Article

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