The phylogenetic position of Acoela as revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome of Symsagittifera roscoffensis

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mwinyi, Adina ^a   Bailly, Xavier ^b   Bourlat, Sarah J ^c   Jondelius, Ulf ^c   Littlewood, D Timothy J ^d   Podsiadlowski, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON ANCESTRY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS;

ACOELA; ACOELOMORPHA; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; METAZOA; NEMERTODERMATIDA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SYMSAGITTIFERA; XENOTURBELLA BOCKI; XENOTURBELLIDA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH;

ANIMALS; GENE ORDER; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS;

EID: 77957736761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-309     Document Type: Article

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