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Published on: October 19, 2012
Phylogenetic relationships of the marine nematode family comesomatidae
Jyotsna Sharma1, Lu Sun, W Duane Hope
1Department of Biology, UTSA, San Antonio, TX 78249 Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 163, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012.
Abstract:
The phylogenetic relationships of the Comesomatidae have remained unresolved at the family level because they have diagnostic morphological features of both the Monhysterida and the Chromadorida. A comparison of the partial sequence of 18S rDNA from representative taxa of Comesomatidae and of morphological data, analyzed in conjunction with molecular and morphological data from monhysterids and chromadorids, suggests a closer relationship of the Comesomatidae with Monhysterida than with Chromadorida.
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