Of mites and millipedes: Recent progress in resolving the base of the arthropod tree

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 488-495

  Caravas, Jason ^a   Friedrich, Markus ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod phylogeny; Molecular phylogenetic tree reconstruction; Myriochelata; Pancrustacea; Phylogenomics

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CRUSTACEA; ECDYSOZOA; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MITE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; MYRIOCHELATA; NONHUMAN; PANCRUSTACEA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MITES; PHYLOGENY;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; CRUSTACEA; DIPLOPODA; HEXAPODA; MANDIBULATA; MYRIAPODA; PANCRUSTACEA;

EID: 77952716890     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000005     Document Type: Review

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