Phylogenetic Relationships of the Marine Nematode Family Comesomatidae |
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| Authors: | Jyotsna Sharma Lu Sun W. Duane Hope Virginia R. Ferris |
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| Affiliation: | 1Department of Biology, UTSA, San Antonio, TX 78249 2Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 3Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 163, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012 |
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| Abstract: | The phylogenetic relationships of the Comesomatidae have remained unresolved at the family level because they have diagnostic morphological features of both the Monhysterida and the Chromadorida. A comparison of the partial sequence of 18S rDNA from representative taxa of Comesomatidae and of morphological data, analyzed in conjunction with molecular and morphological data from monhysterids and chromadorids, suggests a closer relationship of the Comesomatidae with Monhysterida than with Chromadorida. |
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| Keywords: | Comesomatidae marine nematodes phylogeny ribosomal DNA systematics |
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