Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes
Regular price
€248.00
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
18s
18S rDNA
18S rDNA Data
18S rDNA Sequences
18S rDNA Tree
1985a
Animal Kingdom
Category=PSVA
comparative morphology
Cortical Microtubules
Data Set
developmental biology methods
Ehlers
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_science
evolutionary relationships of flatworms
Family Level Taxa
Group
High Bootstrap Support
Host
Hox Genes
Intermediate
invertebrate phylogeny
Land Planarians
Lateral Nerve Cords
Lox5 Gene
Male Pore
Maximum
metazoan evolution
Molecular Synapomorphies
molecular systematics
MP
parasitic flatworms
Parsimony
Rdna
Schistosoma Mansoni
Sister
Sister Group Relationship
Source Trees
Spiral Cleavage
SSU Data
SSU rRNA
SSU Sequence
Supertree Methods
Trochophore Larvae
Product details
- ISBN 9780748409037
- Weight: 1088g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The phylum Platyhelminthes is comprised of some 50,000 species of flatworms living in a wide variety of habitats - from the deep sea to the damp soil of tropical forests- where they occupy pivotal roles in many ecosystems. The parasitic forms include tapeworms and flukes, which plague virtually every species of vertebrates and impose major medical, veterinary, and economic burdens.
Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes elucidates the role of flatworms in the animal kingdom. It brings together results from an international group of experts, spanning many disciplines, who give evidence for the phylogeny of the flatworms and constituent major taxa. A combined approach, using traditional comparative techniques along with the modern techniques of molecular phylogeny, is utilized to show that the monophyly of the phylum is not fully established, and that the phylum may in fact consist of two groups: the acoels and their direct relatives, which are basal metazoans, and the Rhabditophora, which is a more derived group. The authors review the contributions of neurobiology, morphology, and developmental and molecular biology in light of their contributions to flatworm phylogenetics.
This volume provides explicit and fully defined character matrices wherever possible allowing critics, supporters, and future workers to evaluate the state of flatworms systematics and phylogenetics from a single resource. This volume will appeal to all who have an interest in flatworms and recognize the value of phylogenetics as the basis for comparative biology.
D. T. J. Littlewood, R. A. Bray
