Trichoplax and Placozoa: One of the crucial keys to understanding metazoan evolution

Key Transitions in Animal Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 289-326

  Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b   Eitel, Michael ^a   Osigus, Hans Jürgen ^a   von der Chevallerie, Karolin ^a   Bergmann, Tjard ^a   Hadrys, Heike ^a,c   Cramm, Maria ^a   Heck, Laura ^a   Jakob, Wolfgang ^a   Lang, Michael R ^a   DeSalle, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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