A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1699, 2016, Pages

  Lozano Fernandez, Jesus ^a   Carton, Robert ^b   Tanner, Alastair R ^a   Puttick, Mark N ^a   Blaxter, Mark ^c   Vinther, Jakob ^a   Olesen, Jørgen ^d   Giribet, Gonzalo ^e   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^f   Pisani, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arthropod evolution; Molecular clock; Molecular palaeobiology; Phylogeny; Terrestrialization

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; COLONIZATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; SILURIAN;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MYRIAPODA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84975256730     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0133     Document Type: Review

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