Arthropod phylogeny: An overview from the perspectives of morphology, molecular data and the fossil record

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 74-87

  Edgecombe, Gregory D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; CLADISTICS; CRUSTACEA; FOSSIL; GENOMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CALIBRATION; CRUSTACEA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; MANDIBULATA; MYRIAPODA; ONYCHOPHORA; PANARTHROPODA; TARDIGRADA; UNIRAMIA;

EID: 77950553694     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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