Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

Nature

Volumn 470, Issue 7333, 2011, Pages 255-260

  Philippe, Hervé ^a   Brinkmann, Henner ^a   Copley, Richard R ^b   Moroz, Leonid L ^c   Nakano, Hiroaki ^d,i   Poustka, Albert J ^e   Wallberg, Andreas ^f   Peterson, Kevin J ^g   Telford, Maximilian J ^h  

^a Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g Dartmouth College   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GENOMIC DNA; MICRORNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; DATA SET; ECHINODERM; FLATWORM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CLADISTICS; DEUTEROSTOMIA; GILL; INTESTINE; LONG BRANCH ATTRACTION; MARINE SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER GROUP; WORM; XENOTURBELLA;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BAYES THEOREM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GILLS; MICRORNAS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY;

ACOELOMORPHA; BILATERIA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; HEMICHORDATA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS; XENOTURBELLA; XENOTURBELLIDA;

EID: 79951478430     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09676     Document Type: Article

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