The Initial Inquiry Into the Phylogeny of the Family Comasteridae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) From Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data
The crinoid family Comasteridae has undergone several revisions based on morphological characters. None, however, have employed DNA sequence data to generate a phylogenetic hypothesis for the group. To elucidate both monophyletic clades and generic interrelationships, DNA was obtained from 32 taxa,...
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NSUWorks
2000
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| Online Access: | http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/307 http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=occ_stuetd |