Higher-level metazoan relationships: Recent progress and remaining questions

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-172

  Edgecombe, Gregory D ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^b   Dunn, Casey W ^c   Hejnol, Andreas ^d   Kristensen, Reinhardt M ^e   Neves, Ricardo C ^d   Rouse, Greg W ^f   Worsaae, Katrine ^g   Sørensen, Martin V ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal evolution; Bilateria; Ecdysozoa; Expressed sequence tags; Phylogenomics; Spiralia

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLADISTICS; DATING METHOD; DIVERGENCE; EDIACARAN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; METAZOAN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

ACOELA; ACOELOMORPHA; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CHAETOGNATHA; CHORDATA; CNIDARIA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECDYSOZOA; METAZOA; NEMERTODERMATIDA; PLACOZOA; PLATYHELMINTHES; PORIFERA; PROTOSTOMIA; SPIRALIA; XENOTURBELLA;

EID: 80052667788     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-011-0044-4     Document Type: Review

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