Molecular Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • ; A rapid sequencing method for ribosomal RNA was applied to the resolution of evolutionary relationships among Metazoa. Representatives of 22 classes in 10 animal phyla were used to infer phylogenetic relationships, based on evolutionary distances determined from pairwise comparisons of the 18; S; ribosomal RNA sequences. The classical Eumetazoa are divided into two groups. Cnidarians arose from a protist ancestry different from the second group, the Bilateria. Within the Bilateria, an early split gave rise to Platyhelminthes (flatworms) and the coelomate lineage. Coelomates are thus monophyletic, and they radiated rapidly into four groups: chordates, echinoderms, arthropods, and eucoelomate protostomes.;

publication date

  • February 12, 1988

has restriction

  • closed

Date in CU Experts

  • May 10, 2014 1:20 AM

Full Author List

  • Field KG; Olsen GJ; Lane DJ; Giovannoni SJ; Ghiselin MT; Raff EC; Pace NR; Raff RA

author count

  • 8

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0036-8075

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1095-9203

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 748

end page

  • 753

volume

  • 239

issue

  • 4841