Unravelling body plan and axial evolution in the Bilateria with molecular phylogenetic markers

Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 217-238

  Baguñá, Jaume ^a   Martinez, Pere ^a   Paps, Jordi ^a   Riutort, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 67651070238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511541582.017     Document Type: Chapter

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