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Phylum-wide analysis of SSU rDNA reveals deep phylogenetic relationships among nematodes and accelerated evolution toward crown Clades.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Sept 2006
Holterman Martijn, van der Wurff Andre, van den Elsen Sven, van Megen Hanny, Bongers Tom, Holovachov Oleksandr, Bakker Jaap, Helder Johannes
Abstract excerpt
Inference of evolutionary relationships between nematodes is severely hampered by their conserved morphology, the high frequency of homoplasy, and the scarcity of phylum-wide molecular data. To study the origin of nematode radiation and to unravel the phylogenetic relationships between distantly related species, 339 nearly full-length small-subunit rDNA sequences were analyzed from a diverse range of nematodes....
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