How the worm got its pharynx: Phylogeny, classification and bayesian assessment of character evolution in acoela

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 845-871

  Jondelius, Ulf ^a   Wallberg, Andreas ^b   Hooge, Matthew ^c   Raikova, Olga I ^d  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acoela; ancestor; Bilateria; character evolution; divergence; posterior similarity; reconstruction signal

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHARYNX; PHYLOGENY; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; PHARYNX; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; TURBELLARIA;

ACOELA; BILATERIA; CONVOLUTIDAE; DIOPISTHOPORIDAE;

EID: 80054947944     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr073     Document Type: Article

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