Scenarios for the making of vertebrates

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7548, 2015, Pages 450-455

  Holland, Nicholas D ^a   Holland, Linda Z ^a   Holland, Peter W H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; VERTEBRATE;

ANNELID; BRANCHIOSTOMA; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAXON; THEORETICAL STUDY; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; BILATERIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84928615083     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14433     Document Type: Review

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