Babes in the wood - A unique window into sea scorpion ontogeny

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lamsdell, James C ^a   Selden, Paul A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cottonwood Canyon; Development; Eurypterida; Instars; Jaekelopterus; Palaeozoic; Phylogeny; Pragian; Strobilopterus; Syntomopterella

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTHROPOD; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRAGIAN; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY; WOOD;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; EURYPTERIDA; MEROSTOMATA; POPULUS; PRAGIA; PROTEUS SP.; PTERYGOTIDAE; SCORPIONES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCORPION; WOOD;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SCORPIONS; WOOD;

EID: 84877281123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-98     Document Type: Article

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