Modularity of a Cambrian ptychoparioid trilobite cranidium

Evolution and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-109

  Webster, Mark ^a   Zelditch, Miriam L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; MORPHOMETRY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TRILOBITE;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE;

ARTHROPODA; PTYCHOPARIOIDEA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 78650945114     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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