Utility of complete large and small subunit rRNA genes in resolving the phylogeny of the Neodermata (Platyhelminthes): implications and a review of the cercomer …

AE Lockyer, PD Olson… - Biological Journal of the …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We combined nearly complete sequences of large (LSU) and small (SSU) subunit rDNA
from 32 flatworm species to estimate the phylogeny of the Platyhelminthes using maximum …

Diversity and ancestry of flatworms infecting blood of nontetrapod craniates “fishes”

R Orélis-Ribeiro, CR Arias, KM Halanych… - Advances in …, 2014 - Elsevier
We herein review all published molecular studies (life history, taxonomy, and phylogeny)
and summarize all GenBank sequences and primer sets for the “fish blood flukes”. Further …

Interrelationships and evolution of the tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda)

PD Olson, DTJ Littlewood, RA Bray… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2001 - Elsevier
Interrelationships of the tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) were examined by use of
small (SSU) and large (LSU) subunit ribosomal DNA sequences and morphological …

Morphological constraint obscures richness: a mitochondrial exploration of cryptic richness in Transversotrema (Trematoda: Transversotrematidae)

SC Cutmore, RD Corner, TH Cribb - International Journal for Parasitology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Species of Transversotrema Witenberg, 1944 (Transversotrematidae) occupy a
unique ecological niche for the Trematoda, living externally under the scales of their teleost …

A molecular phylogeny of bryozoans

A Waeschenbach, PD Taylor, DTJ Littlewood - … phylogenetics and evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
We present the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny of bryozoans to date. Our
concatenated alignment of two nuclear ribosomal and five mitochondrial genes includes 95 …

A paradigm for the recognition of cryptic trematode species in tropical Indo-west Pacific fishes: the problematic genus Preptetos (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae)

RA Bray, SC Cutmore, TH Cribb - International Journal for Parasitology, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular data have transformed approaches to trematode taxonomy by providing objective
evidence for the delineation of species. However, although the data are objective, the …

A molecular phylogeny of the Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae): unequal evolutionary rates, morphological parallelism, and biogeography of the Southern Ocean

ST Williams, DG Reid, DTJ Littlewood - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2003 - Elsevier
A molecular phylogeny is presented for the subfamily Littorininae (including representatives
of all subgeneric taxa and all members of a group of southern-temperate species formerly …

SPECIATION AND DIVERSITY ON TROPICAL ROCKY SHORES: A GLOBAL PHYLOGENY OF SNAILS OF THE GENUS ECHINOLITTORINA

ST Williams, DG Reid - Evolution, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
A phylogenetic approach to the origin and maintenance of species diversity ideally requires
the sampling of all species within a clade, confirmation that they are evolutionarily distinct …

[HTML][HTML] A new phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) based on expanded taxon sampling and gene markers

TR Oskars, P Bouchet, MAE Malaquias - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The Cephalaspidea is a diverse marine clade of euthyneuran gastropods with many groups
still known largely from shells or scant anatomical data. The definition of the group and the …

Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence

T Nakano, T Ozawa - Journal of Molluscan Studies, 2007 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A molecular phylogeny, based on sequence data from three mitochondrial (12S
rRNA, 16S rRNA and COI) genes, is presented for the Patellogastropoda, including …