Molecular Analysis Supports a Tardigrade-Arthropod Association
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1996
Description
The phylogenetic placement of the phylum Tardigrada among the Metazoa is somewhat uncertain. In analyses based on morphological characters, tardigrades are usually associated with arthropods but tardigrades have also been associated with a number of aschelminth phyla. We have sequenced the nearly complete 18S rRNA gene from a eutardigrade. Neighbor-Joining and Maximum-Parsimony analyses place tardigrades in a clade that includes arthropods and priapulids, but not other aschelminths.
Citation Information
Garey, James R.; Krotec, Mark; Nelson, Diane R.; and Brooks, Jacqueline. 1996. Molecular Analysis Supports a Tardigrade-Arthropod Association. Invertebrate Biology. Vol.115(1). 79-88. https://doi.org/10.2307/3226943 ISSN: 1077-8306