Arthropod fossil data increase congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Legg, David A ^a,b,c   Sutton, Mark D ^a   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLADISTICS; CRUSTACEA; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HEXAPOD; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MYRIAPODA; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; PYCNOGONID; SISTER GROUP; TAXONOMY;

ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; MYRIAPODA; PANARTHROPODA; PYCNOGONIDA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84885141869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3485     Document Type: Article

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