Nuclear genomic signals of the “microturbellarian” roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation

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Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Laumer, Christopher E ^a   Hejnol, Andreas ^b   Giribet, Gonzalo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CATENULIDA; CESTODE; EUNEOOPHORA; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME; MACROSTOMORPHA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOGENEA; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PLATYHELMINTH; PROSERIATA; RHABDITOPHORA; RHABDOCOELA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SISTER GROUP; TAXON; TREMATODE; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BILATERIA; INVERTEBRATA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SPIRALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; GENOME; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS;

EID: 84979866930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05503     Document Type: Article

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