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Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians

BACKGROUND: Fossil lobopodians, including animals proposed to have close affinity to modern onychophorans, are crucial to understanding the evolution of the panarthropod body plan and the phylum-level relationships between the ecdysozoan groups. Unfortunately, the key features of their anatomy are u...

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Autores principales: Murdock, Duncan JE, Gabbott, Sarah E, Mayer, Georg, Purnell, Mark A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25472836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0222-z