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The Phylogenetic Placement of Taenia Cestodes That Parasitize Humans
1 Apr 1998
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We estimated phylogenetic relationships among 12 species or variants of the cestode genus Taenia, including all 3 species that typically use humans as the definitive host, using published sequences of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and 28s rDNA. Analyses of all the data combined using maximum parsimony, neighbor-joining, and maximum likelihood methods give well resolved trees. The trees are similar...
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