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Science 12 February 1988:
Vol. 239. no. 4841, pp. 748 - 753
DOI: 10.1126/science.3277277
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Science, Vol 239, Issue 4841, 748-753
Copyright © 1988 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Molecular phylogeny of the animal kingdom

KG Field, GJ Olsen, DJ Lane, SJ Giovannoni, MT Ghiselin, EC Raff, NR Pace, and RA Raff

Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405.

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.


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