Publication Date:
1988-02-12
Description:
A rapid sequencing method for ribosomal RNA was applied to the resolution of evolutionary relationships among Metazoa. Representatives of 22 classes in 10 animal phyla were used to infer phylogenetic relationships, based on evolutionary distances determined from pairwise comparisons of the 18S ribosomal RNA sequences. The classical Eumetazoa are divided into two groups. Cnidarians arose from a protist ancestry different from the second group, the Bilateria. Within the Bilateria, an early split gave rise to Platyhelminthes (flatworms) and the coelomate lineage. Coelomates are thus monophyletic, and they radiated rapidly into four groups: chordates, echinoderms, arthropods, and eucoelomate protostomes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Field, K G -- Olsen, G J -- Lane, D J -- Giovannoni, S J -- Ghiselin, M T -- Raff, E C -- Pace, N R -- Raff, R A -- GM34527/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HD16739/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- HD21337/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 12;239(4841 Pt 1):748-53.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3277277" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biological Evolution
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Humans
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Invertebrates/*genetics
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*Phylogeny
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RNA, Ribosomal/*genetics
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RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/*genetics
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Species Specificity
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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