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A modern look at the Animal Tree of Life*

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  • 1. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, ggiribet@oeb.harvard.edu
  • 2. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, 80 Waterman Street, RI 02912, USA, casey_dunn@brown.edu
  • 3. Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, g.edgecombe@nhm.ac.uk Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0202, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA, grouse@ucsd.edu

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Giribet, Gonzalo, Dunn, Casey W., Edgecombe, Gregory D., Rouse, Greg W., Z.-Q (2007): A modern look at the Animal Tree of Life*. Zootaxa 1668 (1): 61-79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.8, URL: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1668.1.8

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