Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda

Evolution and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 290-303

  Sperling, Erik A ^a,d   Pisani, Davide ^b   Peterson, Kevin J ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

BRACHIOPOD; CAMBRIAN; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRECAMBRIAN; TAPHONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INVERTEBRATES; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BRACHIOPODA; CRANIIDA; CRANIIFORMEA; INARTICULATA; LINGULIFORMEA; PHORONIFORMEA;

EID: 79955515495     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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