Deducing the pattern of arthropod phytogeny from mitochondrial DNA rearrangements Article

Boore, JL, Collins, TM, Stanton, D et al. (1995). Deducing the pattern of arthropod phytogeny from mitochondrial DNA rearrangements . NATURE, 376(6536), 163-165. 10.1038/376163a0

cited authors

  • Boore, JL; Collins, TM; Stanton, D; Daehler, LL; Brown, WM

authors

abstract

  • THE origins of arthropods and the phylogenetic relationships among their three major living groups (atelocerates, crustaceans and chelicerates) are vigorously conte ded. To help resolve this, we determined mitochondrial gene arrangements for a chelicerate, a myriapod, two crustaceans, an onychophoran, a mollusc and an annelid, and compared them with published gene orders of other species. The result strongly supports the monophyly of Arthropoda and of Mandibulata (atelocerates plus crustaceans) and refutes the Uniramia (atelocerates plus onychophorans). Gene arrangement comparisons are emerging as a powerful new tool for resolving ancient phylogenetic relationships. © 1995 Nature Publishing Groups. All Rights Reserved.

publication date

  • July 13, 1995

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start page

  • 163

end page

  • 165

volume

  • 376

issue

  • 6536