Rapid progress on the vertebrate tree of life

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thomson, Robert C ^a   Shaffer, H Bradley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 77951182221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-19     Document Type: Article

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