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- Title
Ecdysozoa versus Articulata: clades, artifacts, prejudices.
- Authors
ZRZAVÝ
- Abstract
The claim that monophyly of the Ecdysozoa is caused by chance similarities in 18S rDNA sequences (Wägele et al., J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 37, 211–223, 1999) is re-analysed from the cladistic point of view. It is shown that the molecular characters supporting the Ecdysozoa do not behave as ‘noisy’ in empirical studies that use the sensitivity analysis and character congruence approaches. The ‘anti-noise’ methodology proposed by Wägele et al. (1999) is unable to identify true misinformative data. The monophyly of the Articulata (= Annelida + Panarthropoda), proposed by Wägele et al. (1999), is contradicted by all molecular data that support either Ecdysozoa (including Panarthropoda), or Lophotrochozoa (including Annelida), or usually both.
- Subjects
RECOMBINANT DNA; ECDYSOZOA
- Publication
Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, 2001, Vol 39, Issue 3, p159
- ISSN
0947-5745
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1439-0469.2001.00168.x