The genus Polypterus (Bichirs): A fish group diverged at the stem of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Takeuchi, Masaki ^a   Okabe, Masataka ^b   Aizawa, Shinichi ^a  

^a Center for Developmental Biology   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOPTERYGII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FISH; FISH GENETICS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PISCICULTURE; POLYPTERUS; SPAWNING; TELEOST;

ACTINOPTERYGII; POLYPTERIDAE; POLYPTERUS;

EID: 68349085541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo117     Document Type: Article

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