The impact of fossil data on annelid phylogeny inferred from discrete morphological characters

As a result of their plastic body plan, the relationships of the annelid worms and even the taxonomic makeup of the phylum have long been contentious. Morphological cladistic analyses have typically recovered a monophyletic Polychaeta, with the simple-bodied forms assigned to an early-diverging clad...

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Main Authors: Parry, Luke A., Edgecombe, Gregory D., Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny, Vinther, Jakob
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013799/