A modern approach to rotiferan phylogeny: Combining morphological and molecular data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 585-608

  Sørensen, Martin V ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthocephala; Bayesian inference; Cladistics; Cycliophora; Hemirotifera; Micrognathozoa; Rotifera; Seison; Syndermata

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; ROTIFERA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; ROTIFERA;

ACANTHOCEPHALA (WORMS); ACANTHOCEPHALUS; BDELLOIDEA (ROTIFERA); BRACHIONIDAE; CYCLIOPHORA; DICRANOPHORIDAE; METAZOA; MICROGNATHOZOA; MONOGONONTA; NOTOMMATIDAE; PLOIMIDA; PROALES; ROTIFERA; SEISONIDEA;

EID: 33745855530     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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