Rethinking the phylogeny of scleractinian corals: A review of morphological and molecular data

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 411-427

  Budd, Ann F ^a   Romano, Sandra L ^b   Smith, Nathan D ^c,d   Barbeitos, Marcos S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 77956269395     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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