High level of phenotypic homoplasy amongst eutardigrades (tardigrada) based on morphological and total evidence phylogenetic analyses

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-26

  Guil, Noemi ^a   Machordom, Annie ^a   Guidetti, Roberto ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Classification; Eutardigrada; Homoplastic character evolution; Morphology; Parsimony; Phylogeny; Superfamily.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883226718     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12046     Document Type: Article

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