Global Diversity of the Placozoa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLADISTICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT QUALITY; MARKER GENE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLUM; PLACOZOA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; PLACOZOA; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

EID: 84875672460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057131     Document Type: Article

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