Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the Acoelomates and the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha: A combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology

Systematic Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 539-562

  Giribet, Gonzalo ^a,d   Distel, Daniel L ^b   Polz, Martin ^c   Sterrer, Wolfgang ^e   Wheeler, Ward C ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Ecdysozoa; Metazoa; Morphology; Phylogeny; Platyzoa; Triploblastica

Indexed keywords

ACOELA; ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; BRACHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; CEPHALOCHORDATA; CHAETOGNATHA; CYCLIOPHORA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECDYSOZOA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHIURA; ENTEROPNEUSTA; ENTOPROCTA; GASTROTRICHA; GNATHOSTOMULIDA; KINORHYNCHA; LORICIFERA; METAZOA; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; NEMATOMORPHA; NEMERTEA; NEMERTODERMATIDA; ONYCHOPHORA; PHORONIFORMEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; POGONOPHORA; PRIAPULIDA; SIPUNCULA; TARDIGRADA; TROCHOZOA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; THELAZIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GNATHOSTOMA; INVERTEBRATES; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

EID: 0034350325     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635159950127385     Document Type: Article

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