Heads, hox and the phylogenetic position of trilobites

Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 139-165

  Scholtz, Gerhard ^a   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

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