A new dimension in combining data? The use of morphology and phylogenomic data in metazoan systematics

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-19

  Giribet, Gonzalo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal phylogeny; Fossils; Levels of resolution; Molecular data; Morphological data; Museum specimens

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; HISTOLOGY; METAZOAN; MORPHOLOGY; MUSEUM; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 73349119653     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2009.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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