150 years beyond Darwin's Origin of species: finding new approaches to reconstruct early animal phylogeny.
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The conference 'Celebrating Darwin: From the Origin of Species to Deep Metazoan Phylogeny' was held at the Humboldt University in Berlin, from 3 to 6 March 2009. Specialists from the fields of bioinformatics, molecular biology, developmental biology, comparative morphology and paleontology joined forces to present and discuss novel approaches in reconstructing the still unresolved early branching patterns of the metazoan tree of life.
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The conference ‘Celebrating Darwin: From the Origin of Species to Deep Metazoan Phylogeny’ was held at the Humboldt University in Berlin, from 3 to 6 March 2009. Specialists from the fields of bioinformatics, molecular biology, developmental biology, comparative morphology and paleontology joined forces to present and discuss novel approaches in reconstructing the still unresolved early branchi...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Biology letters
دوره 5 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009