A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-209

  Sperling, Erik A ^a   Vinther, Jakob ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; DIGESTION; EDIACARAN; EXTINCTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNGUS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SPONGE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; PORIFERA;

ALGAE; DICKINSONIA; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA; PLACOZOA;

EID: 77953927573     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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