Somatic musculature of tardigrada: Phylogenetic signal and metameric patterns

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 580-603

  Marchioro, Trevor ^a   Rebecchi, Lorena ^a   Cesari, Michele ^a   Hansen, Jesper Guldberg ^b   Viotti, Giulia ^a   Guidetti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Eutardigrada; Evolution; Heterotardigrada; Mosaic evolution; Panarthropoda; Total evidence

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUTARDIGRADA; HETEROTARDIGRADA; PANARTHROPODA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84886781080     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12079     Document Type: Article

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