Rise of the earliest tetrapods: An Early Devonian origin from marine environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  George, David ^a   Blieck, Alain ^b  

^a St Peters Engineering College   (India)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DEVONIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; TETRAPOD; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGENY;

ANTHOZOA; ARTHROPODA; TETRAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79960326663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022136     Document Type: Article

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