• DOI:10.1038/32160
Corpus ID: 4301939

A molecular evolutionary framework for the phylum Nematoda

@article{Blaxter1998AME,
  title={A molecular evolutionary framework for the phylum Nematoda},
  author={M. Blaxter and Paul De Ley and J. Garey and Leo X. Liu and P. Scheldeman and A. Vierstraete and J. Vanfleteren and L. Y. Mackey and M. Dorris and L. Frisse and J. Vida and W. Thomas},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1998},
  volume={392},
  pages={71-75}
}

M. Blaxter, Paul De Ley, +9 authors W. Thomas

Published 1998

Biology, Medicine

Nature

Nematodes are important: parasitic nematodes threaten the health of plants, animals and humans on a global scale,; interstitial nematodes pervade sediment and soil ecosystems in overwhelming numbers; and Caenorhabditis elegans is a favourite experimental model system. A lack of clearly homologous characters and the absence of an informative fossil record have prevented us from deriving a consistent evolutionary framework for the phylum. Here we present a phylogenetic analysis, using 53 small… CONTINUE READING

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