Genus Tetrastemma Ehrenberg, 1831 (Phylum Nemertea) - A natural group? Phylogenetic relationships inferred from partial 18S rRNA sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 144-152

  Strand, Malin ^a   Sundberg, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Classification; Hoplonemertea; Molecular systematics; Systematics; Tetrastemmatidae

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INVERTEBRATES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

AMPHIPORUS; EMPLECTONEMA; HOPLONEMERTEA; NEMERTEA; TETRASTEMMA; TETRASTEMMATIDAE;

EID: 25144464367     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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