Chasing the urmetazoon: Striking a blow for quality data?

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 551-557

  Osigus, Hans Jürgen ^a   Eitel, Michael ^a,d   Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Metazoan evolution; Non bilaterian animals; Placozoa; Placula hypothesis; Trichoplax; Urmetazoon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; METAZOA; PLACOZOA; TRICHOPLAX;

EID: 84873077107     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.05.028     Document Type: Review

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