Twenty Years after De Ley and Blaxter-How Far Did We Progress in Understanding the Phylogeny of the Phylum Nematoda?

ABSTRACT: Molecular phylogenetics brought radical changes to our understanding of nematode evolution, resulting in substantial modifications to nematode classification implemented by De Ley and Blaxter and widely accepted now. Numerous phylogenetic studies were subsequently published that both improved and challenged this classification. Here we present a summary of these changes. We created cladograms that summarise phylogenetic relationships within Nematoda using phylum-wide to superfamily-wide molecular phylogenies published in since 2005, and supplemented with the phylogenetic analyses for Enoplia and Chromadoria with the aim of clarifying the position of several taxa. The results show which parts of the Nematode tree are well resolved and understood, and which parts require more research, eithe

SUBMITTER: Ahmed M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8697950 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature