Origin of the Eumetazoa: testing ecological predictions of molecular clocks against the Proterozoic fossil record.

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2005-07-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/PNAS.0503660102PMID 15983372PMCID PMC1172262
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