Soil-dwelling polychaetes: Enigmatic as ever? some hints on their phylogenetic relationships as suggested by a maximum parsimony analysis of 18S rRNA gene sequences

Contributions to Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 127-138

  Rota, Emilia ^a   Martin, Patrick ^b   Erséus, Christer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

18s rRNA gene; Hrabeiella periglandulata; Molecular phytogeny; Parergodrilus heideri; Rapid radiation; Stygocapitella subterranea; Terrestrial polychaeta

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035605627     PISSN: 00678546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18759866-07003001     Document Type: Article

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