Sequences lead to tree of worms

Claus Nielsen ()
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Claus Nielsen: the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6671, 25-25

Abstract: Nematode worms are important. Many parasitic species infest plants, animals and insects, whilst their free-living cousins decompose plant and animal materials in terrestrial soils and marine sediments. But they have been notoriously difficult to classify, phylogenetically speaking, because they have few distinguishing characteristics. By analysing the sequences of small-subunit ribosomal DNA from 53 species, however, this has now been done. Not least, the new findings provide clues about the evolution of parasitism.

Date: 1998
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