The deuterostome context of chordate origins

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7548, 2015, Pages 456-465

  Lowe, Christopher J ^a   Clarke, D Nathaniel ^a   Medeiros, Daniel M ^b   Rokhsar, Daniel S ^c,d,e   Gerhart, John ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CLADISTICS; EMBRYO; MORPHOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERM; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOMESODERM; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GILL; HEMICHORDATA; MESODERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENDODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; HEMICHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHORDATA; ENDODERM; GILLS; MESODERM; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84928527042     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14434     Document Type: Review

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