Tiny sea anemone from the Lower Cambrian of China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Han, Jian ^a   Kubota, Shin ^b   Uchida, Hiro Omi ^c   Stanley Jr , George D ^d   Yao, Xiaoyong ^a   Shu, Degan ^a   Li, Yong ^e   Yasui, Kinya ^f  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kushimoto Marine Park Center   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; EOLYMPIA PEDICULATA; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LIFE CYCLE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEA ANEMONE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC RANK; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTINIARIA; ANTHOZOA; CERIANTHARIA; CNIDARIA; EUMETAZOA; ZOANTHARIA;

ANIMALS; CHINA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; SEA ANEMONES;

EID: 78149458221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013276     Document Type: Article

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