Embracing Uncertainty in Reconstructing Early Animal Evolution

Current Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2017, Pages R1081-R1088

  King, Nicole ^a   Rokas, Antonis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INVERTEBRATES; PHYLOGENY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 85030862322     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.054     Document Type: Review

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