Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15702-15705

  Briggs, Derek E G ^a   Siveter, Derek J ^b   Siveter, David J ^c   Sutton, Mark D ^d   Garwood, Russell J ^e   Legg, David ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Herefordshire Lagerst tte; Origin of limb morphology; Xiphosurida

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; CHELICERATE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FOSSIL; GENE EXPRESSION; HORSESHOE CRAB; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMULUS; MANDIBULATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILURIAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HORSESHOE CRABS;

ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; LIMULUS; MANDIBULATA; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 84866864824     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205875109     Document Type: Article

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