Homology and Evolution of the Chaetae in Echiura (Annelida)

Echiura is traditionally regarded as a small phylum of unsegmented spiralian worms. Molecular analyses, however, provide unquestionable evidence that Echiura are derived annelids that lost segmentation. Like annelids, echiurans possess chaetae, a single ventral pair in all species and one or two add...

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Main Authors: Tilic, Ekin, Lehrke, Janina, Bartolomaeus, Thomas
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4348511/