Four myriapod relatives – but who are sisters? No end to debates on relationships among the four major myriapod subgroups

Four myriapod relatives – but who are sisters? No end to debates on relationships among the four major myriapod subgroups

Abstract Background Phylogenetic relationships among the myriapod subgroups Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Symphyla and Pauropoda are still not robustly resolved. The first phylogenomic study covering all subgroups resolved phylogenetic relationships congruently to morphological evidence but is in conflict w...

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Main Authors: Nikolaus U. Szucsich, Daniela Bartel, Alexander Blanke, Alexander Böhm, Alexander Donath, Makiko Fukui, Simon Grove, Shanlin Liu, Oliver Macek, Ryuichiro Machida, Bernhard Misof, Yasutaka Nakagaki, Lars Podsiadlowski, Kaoru Sekiya, Shigekazu Tomizuka, Björn M. Von Reumont, Robert M. Waterhouse, Manfred Walzl, Guanliang Meng, Xin Zhou, Günther Pass, Karen Meusemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-11-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Internal rooting
Phylogenetics
Arthropod phylogeny
Quartet topology
Conflict
Confounding signal
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-020-01699-0

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