Palaeontological and Molecular Evidence Linking Arthropods, Onychophorans, and other Ecdysozoa

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-190

  Edgecombe, Gregory D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Expressed sequence tags; Fossils; Lobopodians; Phylogenomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349785825     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-009-0118-3     Document Type: Article

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