Phylogenetic position of the enigmatic clawless eutardigrade genus Apodibius Dastych, 1983 (Tardigrada), based on 18S and 28S rRNA sequence data from its type species A. confusus

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-75

  Dabert, Miroslawa ^a   Dastych, Hieronymus ^b   Hohberg, Karin ^c   Dabert, Jacek ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eutardigrada; Eutardigrade taxonomy; Isohypsibiidae; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EUTARDIGRADA; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; TARDIGRADA;

RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EUTARDIGRADA; EUTARDIGRADE TAXONOMY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; ISOHYPSIBIIDAE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGENY; TARDIGRADA;

EUTARDIGRADA; EUTARDIGRADE TAXONOMY; ISOHYPSIBIIDAE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; GENETIC MARKERS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84885012721     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.012     Document Type: Article

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