The demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica: Reconstructing the ancestral metazoan genome and deciphering the origin of animal multicellularity

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Degnan, Bernard M ^a   Adamska, Maja ^a,b   Craigie, Alina ^a   Degnan, Sandie M ^a   Fahey, Bryony ^a   Gauthier, Marie ^a   Hooper, John N A ^c   Larroux, Claire ^a   Leys, Sally P ^d   Lovas, Erica ^a   Richards, Gemma S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 77956964079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo108     Document Type: Article

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