The dawn of bilaterian animals: The case of acoelomorph flatworms

BioEssays

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1046-1057

  Baguñà, Jaume ^a   Riutort, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN;

GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOX GENE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS;

ACOELA; ACOELOMORPHA; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; METAZOA; NEMERTODERMATIDA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 7044229305     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20113     Document Type: Review

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