Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Metazoa"

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    • Application of magnetic resonance imaging in zoology 

      Ziegler, Alexander; Kunth, Martin; Mueller, Susanne; Bock, Christian; Pohmann, Rolf; Schröder, Leif; Faber, Cornelius; Giribet, Gonzalo (Springer Science + Business Media, 2011)
      Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive imaging technique that today constitutes one of the main pillars of preclinical and clinical imaging. MRI’s capacity to depict soft tissue in whole specimens ex vivo as ...

    • Assembling the spiralian tree of life 

      Giribet, Gonzalo; Dunn, Casey W.; Edgecombe, Gregory Donald; Hejnol, Andreas; Martindale, Mark Q.; Rouse, Greg W. (Oxford University Press, 2009)
      The advent of numerical methods for analyzing phylogenetic relationships, along with the study of morphology and molecular data, have driven our understanding of animal relationships for the past three decades. Within the ...

    • Oxygen, Ecology, and the Cambrian Radiation of Animals 

      Sperling, Erik A.; Frieder, Christina A.; Raman, Akkur V.; Girguis, Peter R.; Levin, Lisa A.; Knoll, Andrew Herbert (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013)
      The Proterozoic-Cambrian transition records the appearance of essentially all animal body plans (phyla), yet to date no single hypothesis adequately explains both the timing of the event and the evident increase in diversity ...