The vertebrate taxonomy ontology: A framework for reasoning across model organism and species phenotypes

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Midford, Peter E ^a,b   Dececchi, Thomas Alex ^c   Balhoff, James P ^b,d   Dahdul, Wasila M ^b,c   Ibrahim, Nizar ^e   Lapp, Hilmar ^b   Lundberg, John G ^f   Mabee, Paula M ^c   Sereno, Paul C ^e   Westerfield, Monte ^g   Vision, Todd J ^b,d   Blackburn, David C ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Evolutionary biology; Paleontology; Taxonomic rank

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907005580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-34     Document Type: Article

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