Animal phylogeny and its evolutionary implications

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 371-395

  Dunn, Casey W ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^b   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^c   Hejnol, Andreas ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

anatomy; evolutionary developmental biology; fossils; Metazoa; morphology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; GENOME; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84913583473     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091627     Document Type: Article

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