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The colonization of land by animals: molecular phylogeny and divergence times among arthropods

BACKGROUND: The earliest fossil evidence of terrestrial animal activity is from the Ordovician, ~450 million years ago (Ma). However, there are earlier animal fossils, and most molecular clocks suggest a deep origin of animal phyla in the Precambrian, leaving open the possibility that animals coloni...

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Autores principales: Pisani, Davide, Poling, Laura L, Lyons-Weiler, Maureen, Hedges, S Blair
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC333434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14731304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-2-1