Anatomically modern Carboniferous harvestmen demonstrate early cladogenesis and stasis in Opiliones

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Garwood, Russell J ^a   Dunlop, Jason A ^b   Giribet, Gonzalo ^c   Sutton, Mark D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; CARBONIFEROUS; CLADOGENESIS; FOSSIL; FRANCE; HARVESTMEN; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; OPILIONES; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; OPILIONES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 80052401645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1458     Document Type: Article

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