An integrated view of precambrian eumetazoan evolution

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2009, Pages 65-80

  Davidson, E H ^a   Erwin, D H ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BILATERIA; CLADISTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENT; EDIACARAN; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOMICS; METAZOON; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOTA; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUMETAZOAN; NEOPROTEROZOIC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; EUMETAZOA; PROTOSTOMIA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77957738035     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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